"Does machine learning get offensive actors anything they don't already have?" asks Ben Buchanan, Director of CSET's CyberAI program. He joined the CyberLaw podcast to discuss the impacts of AI on offensive and defensive cyber operations.

"Unlike some earlier national security technologies, the commercial sector plays an outsize role in AI development." This raises important questions about how antitrust enforcement might affect the Pentagon's ability to access AI innovation.

CSET research on top AI hubs in the United States was cited twice in this roundup of AI news: about centers of AI employment, and about focal points of AI industry funding.

“There are different ways that one could define military connections to the PLA in China," said CSET's Remco Zwetsloot. "Obviously it’s a very opaque system and there’s a way to cast a very broad net and there’s a way to cast a very narrow net.” He spoke with Inside Higher Ed about U.S. technology talent flows and policies.

American chip companies depend on foreign graduates and workers, write Remco Zwetsloot and Will Hunt. New large-scale immigration restrictions, if successful, will hamstring efforts to bring home advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, reviews CSET Senior Faculty Fellow Ben Buchanan's latest book, which highlights the landscape of subtle but persistent cyber attacks that are changing statecraft.

"The massive [CORD-19] Dataset ...houses over 12,000 full text articles in 'machine-readable form.'" The CSET-led project is accelerating scientific discoveries in the fight against COVID-19.

"AI is very different from other security-relevant technologies, in that the private sector is in the driver's seat." Zach Arnold and Ashwin Acharya joined the ChinaTalk podcast to discuss their work at CSET on AI investment.

The CSET-coordinated Covid-19 Open Research Dataset "compiles relevant data and adds new research into one centralized hub. ...As of publication, there are more than 128,000 scholarly articles on Covid-19, coronavirus, SARS, MERS, and other relevant terms."

"Changing the composition of tech companies could open the doors for a new generation of firms to challenge incumbents and collectively move forward American AI innovation." The Next Platform spoke with Dakota Foster to discuss how antitrust action might affect the tech sector.