The Forbes AI 50 list “shows that foreign talent is critical to AI innovation—and that for now, the United States can still attract talent from around the world,” write CSET’s Remco Zwetsloot, Tina Huang and Zachary Arnold.

“China clearly wants to lead the world when it comes to AI,” says CSET’s Helen Toner. “It’s hard to imagine China being seen as a world leader if the open-source frameworks are so US-dominated.”

Accelerating threats to cybersecurity, the impact of automation on cyber defense, and the degree to which cyber operations will become faster and more powerful are among the subjects that CSET will now start to explore thanks to a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Green card limits haven’t budged in decades, while new policies make it harder, costlier, and more uncertain for the world’s talent to come to the United States.

As part of the $500,000 agreement, SPL will assist CSET in investigating the legal, policy and security impacts of emerging technology, supporting academic work in security and technology studies and delivering nonpartisan analysis to the law and policy community. Judge Baker is the grant’s primary investigator.

The article referenced CSET recommendations on semiconductor manufacturing equipment export controls.

Jason Matheny said the intelligence community has spent a lot of time looking at ways to use an adversary’s AI tools against them. “You can get a tank that is covered with a sort of form of digital camouflage ... that causes a machine learning classifier to think that it’s a school bus."

When it comes to blacklisting Chinese AI companies engaged in human rights violations, “the US is on strong moral ground,” says Helen Toner, CSET’s Director of Strategy.

Helen Toner, Director of Strategy at CSET, joined Dame Wendy Hall, Jaan Tallinn and Ed Butler to talk about threats intelligent machines might pose to humans.

A new research center, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, was launched this year within the SFS to study and advise policymakers on the intersection of AI and national security, and in September, the university hosted a conference on that same topic.