Owen J. Daniels

China’s Overlooked AI Strategy Beijing is using soft power to gain global dominance.

“If Washington’s new AI strategy does not adequately account for open models, American AI companies, despite their world-leading models, will risk ceding international AI influence to China,” write @ojdaniels.bsky.social and @hannadohmen.bsky.social.

The new AI Action Plan touts the strategic importance of open models.

That's not news to China, where developers like DeepSeek have made the PRC the leader in open-weights AI.

In @foreignaffairs.com, CSET's @ojdaniels.bsky.social & @hannadohmen.bsky.social explain how the U.S. can respond.

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CSET's Recommendations for an AI Action Plan | Center for Security and Emerging Technology In response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy's request for input on an AI Action Plan, CSET provides key recommendations for advancing AI research, ensuring U.S. competitiveness, and max...

As AI continues to reshape our world, CSET remains committed to providing data-driven analysis on the security implications of emerging technologies.

Read our full response: cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...

The future of AI leadership requires thoughtful policy. @CSETGeorgetown just submitted our response to @NSF's RFI on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan. Here's what we recommend: 🧵[1/]

Out of Balance: What the EU's Strategy Shift Means for the AI Ecosystem | TechPolicy.Press Mia Hoffmann and Owen J. Daniels from Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology say Europe's movements could change the global landscape.

Mia Hoffmann and Owen J. Daniels from Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology say Europe's apparent shift on AI policy could change the global landscape for AI governance. www.techpolicy.press/out-of-balan...

What does the EU's shifting strategy mean for AI?

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U.S. AI firms, take note! An op-ed by @sambresnick.bsky.social and @colemcfaul.bsky.social in @barrons.com argues that China's "good enough" AI strategy (think DeepSeek) could disrupt the market.

It's about affordable tech. Huawei playbook 2.0? Open-source Chinese models are closing the gap, fast.

Some Thoughts on AI Terminology: Safety and Regulation A persistent challenge in the artificial intelligence policy space is agreement—or lack thereof—around terminology. Sometimes, this is due to the challenge of nailing down precise terms for evolving c...

Are definitional clarifications dramatically boring? Yes. Are they policy relevant? Also yes. Some thoughts on conflating AI governance, safety, & regulation, informed by @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social work.

TLDR: regulation !=safety
safety != "hand-wringing" www.linkedin.com/pulse/some-t...

How the U.S. Government Hires, Uses, and Pays for AI Tools and Talent | Center for Security and Emerging Technology On February 24, join CSET, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation, and Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy for a discussion on the federal government's procurement and us...

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At 3pm ET today, February 24, join AllaSeiffert of AWS, CSET’s
@moschinski.bsky.social, and Elizabeth Laird of @cendemtech.bsky.social for a discussion on how the U.S. government uses and acquires AI talent and tools. cset.georgetown.edu/event/how-th...

U.S. AI policy in Trump’s first month — VP Vance lays out AI plan at Paris summit, workforce cuts hit science and AI staff, Trump’s AI EO, an “America First Trade Policy,” and Stargate | Center for Se... Plus: The DeepSeek frenzy — sorting through the takeaways, and OpenAI looks to stay top dog with new product releases and a tease of GPT-5

It’s been a busy month for AI policy. CSET's @alexfriedland.bsky.social recapped everything you need to know:

1️⃣ Trump’s AI strategy
2️⃣ The Paris AI Summit
3️⃣ OpenAI’s releases and the roadmap to GPT-5
4️⃣ Sifting through the DeepSeek implications

And much more! cset.georgetown.edu/newsletter/f...

DeepResearch prompt: "'The End of History and the Last Man' but make it AI"

I've left a lot out: the profit opportunities and risks of increasingly agentic systems got a lot of air; emerging research on scheming, sabotage, and survival instincts of LLMs and frontier models was prominent; and practical ethics policy ideas abounded. Looking forward to sharing more ideas soon

AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation Finding agreement through a free exchange of views is often difficult. Collective deliberation can be slow, difficult to scale, and unequally attentive to different voices. In this study, we trained a...

Across the risk spectrum, the question arose time and again: where do we actually need AI solutions? Is it actually helpful to have AI to try to help us find common ground around political disagreements, for example? Do we want more tech in our democratic processes? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

AI goes nuclear Big tech is turning to old reactors (and new ones) to power the energy-hungry data centers that artificial intelligence systems need. But the downsides of nuclear power—like potential nuclear weapons ...

France’s announcement at the summit that it was tapping its nuclear power industry for data centers grabbed headlines, but nuclear power is not necessarily a panacea for all of AI’s energy issues. It remains a globally significant space to watch. thebulletin.org/2024/12/ai-g...

Environmental and energy concerns will only continue to grow with scaling, and rightfully earned much discussion. Even with model innovation’s like DeepSeek R1, which is cheaper and more efficient to train, consumption for inference will remain high.

The AISIs have different structures and stakeholders and are attuned to particular research ecosystems, meaning they're not 1-1 matches from one nation to the next, but they can still facilitate exchange. They'll obviously face some geopolitical headwinds amid tech competition.

Safety cases at AISI | AISI Work As a complement to our empirical evaluations of frontier AI models, AISI is planning a series of collaborations and research projects sketching safety cases for more advanced models than exist today, ...

Despite disappointment at executive messaging, the AI Safety Institutes leading safety work at the national level could be ideal vehicles for developing and disseminating testing, evaluation, and safety best practices. Saw some impressive presentations at side events www.aisi.gov.uk/work/safety-...

JD Vance's comments on Europe's "excessive regulation" were well covered, but EC Pres von der Leyen and Macron also championed getting out of the private sector's way. My colleague @miahoffmann.bsky.social wrote a thread about why this attitude could be troubling for Europe bsky.app/profile/miah...

The AI Action Summit: Some Perspective on Paris The recently concluded AI Action Summit in Paris, which comprised civil society and official government meetings, commenced last week with some ambitious goals. As the Center for Security and Emerging...

A few thoughts on the outcomes of the AI Action Summit in Paris. The summit laid out some grand goals for AI governance (and covered them at length in the civil society portion), but the government-led portion of the summit was largely about AI enthusiasm.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-act...

There have been a ton of AI policy developments coming out of the EU these past weeks, but one deeply concerning one is the withdrawal of the AI Liability Directive (AILD) by the European Commission. Here’s why:

Great, thought-provoking discussion and panels at AI Safety Connect in Paris today. How various national iterations of AI safety institutes cooperate (or don’t) in the year ahead will be a major area to watch.

Will the Paris artificial intelligence summit set a unified approach to AI governance—or just be another conference? AI innovations and governments’ preferences can make international consensus on governance at the Paris Summit challenging.

@miahoffmann.bsky.social , @ojdaniels.bsky.social, and I wrote a piece on key AI governance areas to watch in 2025 with the upcoming AI Action Summit in mind. Check it out here! thebulletin.org/2025/02/will...

Will the Paris artificial intelligence summit set a unified approach to AI governance—or just be another conference? AI innovations and governments’ preferences can make international consensus on governance at the Paris Summit challenging.

Read their piece for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/02/will...

Next week, Paris will host world leaders, experts, and CEOs of some of the biggest AI developers at the #AIActionSummit.

Whether they can agree on a unified approach to AI governance remains to be seen, write
@miahoffmann.bsky.social, @minanrn.bsky.social, and
@ojdaniels.bsky.social.

They also fail to advance progress on more ambitious goals, like safety measures, energy efficiency, or labor standards in data supply-chains. Legislators need to think more on how governments and firms can ensure voluntary steps entail real, significant investments toward harnessing AI responsibly.

Last but not least, voluntary commitments: voluntary measures that simply reframe business practices as governance risk coming off as participation trophies.

The EU AI Act has inspired some of this state legislation and is a global role model. As provisions go into enforcement imminently, it may serve as a role model for enforcing, not just developing, legislation

Similarly, understanding the strengths (existence) and limitations (compliance challenges and scope) of the “patchwork quilt” of emerging state-level governance mechanisms in the U.S. will be important