The CORD-19 venture emerged after the White House OSTP convened industry and academia to marshal artificial intelligence tools to sift through thousands of research articles being published worldwide on the coronavirus.

CSET, along with Microsoft Research, the National Library of Medicine, the Allen Institute for AI, and others, aggregated more than 29,000 papers on the wider coronavirus family for research purposes.

“Once the crisis has passed, we hope this project will inspire new ways to use machine learning to advance scientific research,” said Dewey Murdick, CSET Director of Data Science, of the CORD-19 project.

To create the most extensive machine-readable dataset of coronavirus literature to date, CSET partnered with the White House OSTP, the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and NIH National Library of Medicine.

The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset — CORD-19 — was created in response to a request from the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, harnessing more than 24,000 articles about the COVID-19 disease.

“This valuable new resource is the fruit of unselfish collaboration and now offers the opportunity to find answers to important questions about COVID-19,” said Dewey Murdick, CSET Director of Data Science, who coordinated the cross-team effort.

CSET has coordinated an effort between the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine to offer the most comprehensive dataset to date on the coronavirus.

The United States must collaborate with its allies and partners to shape the trajectory of artificial intelligence, promoting liberal democratic values and protecting against efforts to wield AI for authoritarian ends, CSET researchers said in a report released today.

“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.