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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · Jul 25

“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.

China’s Overlooked AI Strategy

Beijing is using soft power to gain global dominance.

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CSET @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social · Jul 25

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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Dewey Murdick @deweyam.bsky.social · Mar 27

I’m proud to share @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social’s Annual Report!

From Congressional testimony and groundbreaking research to essential data tools & translations, our team continues to shape critical emerging tech policy conversations.

Grateful to everyone who makes this work possible.

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Dewey Murdick @deweyam.bsky.social · Mar 17

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/...

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...

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Dewey Murdick @deweyam.bsky.social · Mar 17

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/]

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Mar 10

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...

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.

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CSET @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social · Mar 10

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

CSET's @miahoffmann.bsky.social & @ojdaniels.bsky.social have a new piece out for @techpolicypress.bsky.social.

Read it now 👇

Mia Hoffmann @miahoffmann.bsky.social · Mar 10

If you’ve ever wondered what the EU and elephants have in common - or are wondering now- read my latest piece with @ojdaniels.bsky.social! We take a look what the EU’s new innovation-friendly regulatory approach might mean for the global AI policy ecosystem www.techpolicy.press/out-of-balan...

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.

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Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social · Mar 10

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Mia Hoffmann @miahoffmann.bsky.social · Mar 10

If you’ve ever wondered what the EU and elephants have in common - or are wondering now- read my latest piece with @ojdaniels.bsky.social! We take a look what the EU’s new innovation-friendly regulatory approach might mean for the global AI policy ecosystem www.techpolicy.press/out-of-balan...

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.

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Dewey Murdick @deweyam.bsky.social · Mar 7

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.

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Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social · Mar 5

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...

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...

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CSET @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social · Feb 24

📅Webinar today📅

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...

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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CSET @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social · Feb 20

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...

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

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Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social · Feb 20

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

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Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social · Feb 13

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

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Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social · Feb 13

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 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...

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Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social · Feb 13

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...

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 ...

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Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social · Feb 13

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.

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Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social · Feb 13

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.

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Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social · Feb 13

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-...

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, ...

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Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social · Feb 13

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...

Mia Hoffmann @miahoffmann.bsky.social · Feb 13

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:

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Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social · Feb 13

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...

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...

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Mia Hoffmann @miahoffmann.bsky.social · Feb 13

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:

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Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social · Feb 9

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.

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Mina Narayanan @minanrn.bsky.social · Feb 7

@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.

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CSET @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social · Feb 6

Read their piece for @thebulletin.org: 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.

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