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AI Safety under the EU AI Code of Practice — A New Global Standard? | Center for Security and Emerging Technology To protect Europeans from the risks posed by artificial intelligence, the EU passed its AI Act last year. This month, the EU released a Code of Practice to help providers of general purpose AI comply ...

✨New Analysis✨

Can the new EU AI Code of Practice change the global AI safety landscape?

As companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google sign on, CSET’s @miahoffmann.bsky.social explores the code’s Safety and Security chapter. cset.georgetown.edu/article/eu-a...

Check out the second @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social blog from @sonali-sr.bsky.social and myself where we explore the strategies, risks, and harms addressed by AI-related laws enacted by Congress between Jan 2020 and March 2025 🧵1/6 eto.tech/blog/ai-laws...

Introducing CSET’s Patent Clusters | Center for Security and Emerging Technology Data Snapshots are informative descriptions and quick analyses that dig into CSET’s unique data resources. This three-part series introduces CSET’s patent clusters, which connect related patents throu...

Check out @katherine-quinn.bsky.social, Rebecca Gelles, @vjkin.bsky.social, and Christian Schoeberl's new data snapshot: cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...

📊NEW: Take a peek under the hood of CSET’s cutting-edge data resources!

Patents give us a window into the innovation pipeline, tracing research to commercialization.

Our new data snapshot previews our enhanced clustering algorithm for patents and finding areas of innovation!

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

Read the piece: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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.

Really timely breakdown of today's big AI Action Plan release, by @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social's own @alexfriedland.bsky.social! Give it a read, I think it's really useful.

Yesterday's new AI Action Plan has a lot worth discussing!

One interesting aspect is its statement that the federal government should withhold AI-related funding from states with "burdensome AI regulations."

This could be cause for concern.

Trump’s Plan for AI: Recapping the White House’s AI Action Plan | Center for Security and Emerging Technology On July 23, the White House published its long-awaited AI Action plan. In this post, CSET's Alex Friedland breaks down the most important takeaways.

🚨 The White House's AI Action Plan is out!

CSET's policy.ai author @alexfriedland.bsky.social broke down the key takeaways and the most interesting and important recommendations across all 30 sections.

Check it out: cset.georgetown.edu/article/trum...

Check out the first blog in a 2 part series from @sonali-sr.bsky.social and myself where we use data from @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social AGORA to explore ✨AI-related legislation that was enacted by Congress between January 2020 and March 2025✨
eto.tech/blog/ai-laws... 🧵1/3

Beyond Corporate Promises: How Government Can Follow Through on AI Preparedness | Center for Security and Emerging Technology Frontier AI capabilities show no sign of slowing down so that governance can catch up, yet national security challenges need addressing in the near term. This blog post outlines a governance approach ...

AI companies have made voluntary commitments, but they shouldn't tackle national security risks alone.

Kendrea Beers outlines practical government measures to improve AI preparedness in the near term without waiting for comprehensive regulation: cset.georgetown.edu/article/beyo...

Beyond Corporate Promises: How Government Can Follow Through on AI Preparedness | Center for Security and Emerging Technology Frontier AI capabilities show no sign of slowing down so that governance can catch up, yet national security challenges need addressing in the near term. This blog post outlines a governance approach ...

✨New Post✨

How can government complement private sector AI preparedness efforts? Kendrea Beers argues for targeted actions in 3 key areas:

➡️ Sharing national security expertise
➡️ Promoting transparency
➡️ Developing risk management best practices.

Read more: cset.georgetown.edu/article/beyo...

Banning state-level AI regulation is a bad idea!

One crucial reason is that states play a critical role in building AI governance infrastructure.

Check out this new op-ed by @jessicaji.bsky.social, myself, and @minanrn.bsky.social on this topic!

thehill.com/opinion/tech...

2 weeks left on this open funding call on risks from internal deployments of frontier AI models—submissions are due June 30.

Expressions of interest only need to be 1-2 pages, so still time to write one up!

Full details: cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...

How Prize Competitions Enable AI Innovation | Center for Security and Emerging Technology Federal prize competitions can help the U.S. government build a research and development ecosystem that incentivizes AI and cyber innovation and delivers for the American people. Over the last five ye...

In the last four years, AI- and cyber-specific federal prize competitions saw a nearly 60% increase in activity.

In her new post, CSET’s @alicrawford.bsky.social says the Trump administration should lean into this trend: cset.georgetown.edu/article/how-...

"Red-teaming" isn't a catch-all term (or methodology!) to evaluate AI safety. So, what else do we have in the toolbox?

In our recent blog post, we explore the different questions we can ask about safety, how we can start to measure them, and what it means for AIxBio. Check it out! ⬇️

Amidst all the discussion about AI safety, how exactly do we figure out whether a model is safe?

There's no perfect method, but safety evaluations are the best tool we have.

That said, different evals answer different questions about a model!

AI Safety Evaluations: An Explainer | Center for Security and Emerging Technology Effectively evaluating AI models is more crucial than ever. But how do AI evaluations actually work? Our explainer lays out the different fundamental types of AI safety evaluations alongside their res...

Read the post: cset.georgetown.edu/article/ai-s...

⚖️ New Explainer!

Effectively evaluating AI models is more crucial than ever. But how do AI evaluations actually work?

In their new explainer,
@jessicaji.bsky.social, @vikramvenkatram.bsky.social &
@stephbatalis.bsky.social break down the different fundamental types of AI safety evaluations.

💡Funding opportunity—share with your AI research networks💡

Internal deployments of frontier AI models are an underexplored source of risk. My program at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social just opened a call for research ideas—EOIs due Jun 30.

Full details ➡️ cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...

Summary ⬇️

Wrote a thing on value-based choices when deploying AI. It's based on a military situation (a sci-fi version of the My Lai massacre) but I can't help but think this is a problem lots of leaders will face in more subtle, and less stressful, ways.

Promoting AI Innovation Through Competition | Center for Security and Emerging Technology Maintaining long-term U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence will require policymakers to foster a diversified, contestable, and competitive market for AI systems. Today, however, incumbent techno...

Competition is critical for AI innovation, but the sector seems destined to consolidate over time.

A new report from @jack-corrigan.bsky.social explores the risks of a concentrated AI market and what U.S. policymakers can do about it 👇
cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...

Trump scraps Biden's “AI Diffusion” rule and pursues AI deals with Gulf states, a Senate bill to stop chip smuggling, and an IMF report on AI emissions | Center for Security and Emerging Technology Plus: OpenAI’s restructure plans and botched GPT-4o update, Trump’s budget request, and State’s S&T Cooperation Office shuttered

In this month’s newsletter, CSET's @alexfriedland.bsky.social wrapped up all the latest AI & policy news:

1️⃣ Trump scraps Biden’s “AI Diffusion” rule
2️⃣ OpenAI’s consumer tech moves
3️⃣ Tom Cotton’s chip smuggling bill
4️⃣ The IMF on AI & emissions

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

As military AI evolves, ethical dilemmas grow. Should drones merely inform soldiers, coach decisions, or enforce rules of war directly?

Read the new piece by Minji Jang & CSET's @emmyprobasco.bsky.social, out today in @warontherocks.bsky.social 👇

America’s response to measles is eroding its ability to deter biological attacks The rising death toll for a preventable disease reveals just how ill-prepared the country is to handle a malicious bioweapon.

Great article by the one and only @stephbatalis.bsky.social

www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/0...

America’s response to measles is eroding its ability to deter biological attacks The rising death toll for a preventable disease reveals just how ill-prepared the country is to handle a malicious bioweapon.

🚨 Latest op-ed is out in Defense One!

“Dismantling critical preparedness offices, cutting infrastructure and funding, and allowing misinformation to derail the response are not just bad for healthcare—they’re dangerous national security signals.”

www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/0...

YouTube video by Center for Security and Emerging Technology How the United States Wins the Global Tech Competition

YouTube link: youtu.be/qumvq9QLzmA?...

How the U.S. Wins the Global Tech Competition | Center for Security and Emerging Technology What will it take for the U.S. to win the global technology race? From artificial intelligence to biotechnology, the stakes are high — and the time to act is now. Join leading voices from the worlds o...

Missed the event or want to revisit the discussion?

🎥 Watch the full recording here: cset.georgetown.edu/event/how-th...

Panel 2 featured CSET experts’ insights on how policy research can help sustain U.S. tech leadership.

Topics included AI security, workforce development, and how we close the gap between research and deployment.

Panel 1 brought together industry leaders to discuss how the U.S. can build a vibrant AI ecosystem.

They covered everything from workforce and R&D to the challenge of deploying AI at scale — and what it will take to turn technical leadership into economic strength.