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Using an AI algorithm called GPT-3, CSET was able to generate misinformation.

CSET report examines how GPT-3, a new AI system, has the capability to automate the future of disinformation campaigns.

Vice featured CSET's report, "Truth, Lies, and Automation," which discusses how language processing models could be used to automate and fuel disinformation campaigns.

Behind India’s AI Patent Boom

Analytics India Magazine
| May 20, 2021

Analytics India highlighted CSET research studying the AI patent boom in India and around the world.

Axios Future featured CSET's report, "Truth, Lies, and Automation," which discovered GPT-3's startling ability to potentially fuel automated disinformation campaigns.

Truth, Lies, and Automation

Ben Buchanan, Andrew Lohn, Micah Musser, and Katerina Sedova
| May 2021

Growing popular and industry interest in high-performing natural language generation models has led to concerns that such models could be used to generate automated disinformation at scale. This report examines the capabilities of GPT-3--a cutting-edge AI system that writes text--to analyze its potential misuse for disinformation. A model like GPT-3 may be able to help disinformation actors substantially reduce the work necessary to write disinformation while expanding its reach and potentially also its effectiveness.

Ryan Fedasiuk's research on China's media manipulation found that 20 million part-time volunteers and 2 million paid commentators have been recruited to alter China's public opinion online.

In collaborations with Partnership on AI, CSET's AI Incident Database has documented 1,200 cases of AI system failures.

Fear and confusion continue over research interactions with China

Chemical & Engineering News
| May 7, 2021

CSET Research Analyst Emily Weinstein dissects the China Initiative and the lack of understanding it has created between law enforcement and academia.

Machine Intelligence for Scientific Discovery and Engineering Invention

Matthew Daniels, Autumn Toney, Melissa Flagg, and Charles Yang
| May 2021

The advantages of nations depend in part on their access to new inventions—and modern applications of artificial intelligence can help accelerate the creation of new inventions in the years ahead. This data brief is a first step toward understanding how modern AI and machine learning have begun accelerating growth across a wide array of science and engineering disciplines in recent years.