Organizations face growing pressure to adopt artificial intelligence, but often lack practical guidance on how to do so effectively. This report bridges the gap between high-level principles and real-world implementation, offering actionable steps across the AI adoption life cycle. Drawing on over 1,200 resources, this reference guide provides practitioners with the knowledge required to operationalize AI safety, security, and governance practices within their organizations.

Read our translation of China's Cybersecurity Law, as amended in October 2025, which lays out the cybersecurity responsibilities of computer network users in China.

Read our translation of China's export control regulation for dual-use items and technologies.

Each year, CSET’s annual report highlights our work and impact across technology and security issues. It shows how our research, convening, and engagement contribute to important policy conversations on emerging technologies.

In 2025, CSET advanced its mission to inform high-stakes decisions through rigorous, evidence-based analysis of the security implications of emerging technologies. Our independent research examines issues at the intersection of technology and security.

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Read our translation of a plan from the Chinese equivalent of NASA that attempts to smooth the path for the development of commercial space companies in China.

Read our translation of China's industrial policy for the application of AI technology in the manufacturing sector, which features a big push for agentic AI.

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.

Read our translation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) list of priorities for the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), from the CCP's Fourth Plenum in October 2025.

This paper examines the convergence of artificial intelligence and robotics, analyzing the emerging field of Physical AI. It provides a detailed overview of the supply chain challenges, competitive dynamics, and policy considerations that define this potentially transformative emerging technology.

Leading artificial intelligence companies have started to use their own systems to accelerate research and development, with each generation of AI systems contributing to building the next generation. This report distills points of consensus and disagreement from our July 2025 expert workshop on how far the automation of AI R&D could go, laying bare crucial underlying assumptions and identifying what new evidence could shed light on the trajectory going forward.