The United States must adopt a new approach to R&D policy to optimize the diversity of the current system, manage the risks of system dispersion and deliver the benefits of R&D to society. This policy brief provides a new framework for understanding the U.S. R&D ecosystem and recommendations for repositioning the role of the federal government in R&D.

CSET has prepared policy recommendations for the next presidential administration to consider in five areas key to U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence.

Collaborating with allies to shape the trajectory of artificial intelligence and protect against digital authoritarianism

Establishing a new open-source National Science and Technology Analysis Center

Establishing a new public-private institution to improve American research security

Preserving pathways for high-skilled foreign talent critical to U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence.

Protecting international security and human rights by using multilateral controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment and advanced chips

How should the United States understand and respond to China’s technologically driven mass surveillance, internment and indoctrination in Xinjiang? Dahlia Peterson offers a set of policy recommendations in a coauthored report for the Brookings Institution.

CSET Founding Director Jason Matheny testified before the House Budget Committee for its hearing, "Machines, Artificial Intelligence, & the Workforce: Recovering and Readying Our Economy for the Future." Dr. Matheny's full testimony as prepared for delivery can be found below.

Read our original translation of a PRC government report that analyzes the AI industry in China and concludes that demand for AI professionals continues to exceed supply. The U.S. job market continues to attract the majority of highly qualified Chinese AI researchers, the report finds.