Reports

CSET produces evidence-driven analysis in a variety of forms, from informative graphics and translations to expert testimony and published reports. Our key areas of inquiry are the foundations of artificial intelligence — such as talent, data and computational power — as well as how AI can be used in cybersecurity and other national security settings. We also do research on the policy tools that can be used to shape AI’s development and use, and on biotechnology.

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China’s Military AI Wish List

Emelia Probasco, Sam Bresnick, and Cole McFaul
| February 2026

This report examines thousands of Chinese-language open-source requests for proposal (RFPs) published by the People’s Liberation Army between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2024. The RFPs the authors reviewed offer insights into the PLA’s priorities and ambitions for AI-enabled military technologies associated with C5ISRT: command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting.

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Testimony

Jeff Ding’s Testimony Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

Jeff Ding
| June 7, 2019

Jeff Ding testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission for its hearing on "Technology, Trade, and Military-Civil Fusion: China’s Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence, New Materials, and New Energy."

Testimony

Helen Toner’s Testimony Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

Helen Toner
| June 7, 2019

CSET Director of Strategy Helen Toner testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission at a hearing on "Technology, Trade, and Military-Civil Fusion: China’s Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence, New Materials, and New Energy."

Formal Response

Comment on NIST Draft Standards for Reliable, Robust, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

May 31, 2019

CSET submitted this comment in response to a U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute for Standards and Technology request for information in drafting proposed standards for the development of AI technologies.

Formal Response

Comment on BIS Review of Controls for Certain Emerging Technologies

January 10, 2019

CSET submitted the following comment in response to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Review of Controls for Certain Emerging Technologies.