“There’s a case to be made that AI will help to solve some of the central problems of authoritarian regimes,” says CyberAI Director Ben Buchanan. “We need to think quite seriously about how to combat this and use this technology for democratic purposes.”

"Higher ranks of Chinese military are now very interested in 5G and other emerging technologies and see real military potential," says CSET Visiting Researcher Lorand Laskai.

A recent CSET report concludes that “China’s government probably isn’t dramatically outspending the U.S. government on AI R&D,” in contravention of popular notions of Chinese AI spending.

CSET's Ben Chang reflects on the AI comparative advantage between the United States and China. “There's an assumption that AI is the means by which China will leapfrog the US in military power. But I think this is wrong.”

CSET's Bill Hannas and Elsa Kania weigh in on technology transfer and China's Thousand Talents program, which numbers at least 10,000 scholars. 

CSET Lead Analyst William Hannas spoke with the New York Times about China's robust efforts to recruit scientists to support it's S&T goals.

Remco Zwetsloot recommends improving disclosure & transparency practices across government agencies and other institutions to avoid problems with coercion & theft.

Many have sounded the alarm over the loss of U.S.-educated talent to other countries—especially China. Is the perceived brain drain real? A CSET research team finds little evidence of U.S. talent loss.

CSET research shows more than 80 percent of international students receiving Ph.D.s in artificial intelligence remain in the U.S. for at least five years. That’s good, write Remco Zwetsloot and Zach Arnold, because America’s tech sector relies on foreign-born talent.

"As American strategy reorients toward strategic competition, critical considerations of surety, security and reliability around AI/ML applications should not be cast aside," write Andrew Imbrie and Elsa Kania.