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New Grant Agreement Boosts CSET Funding to More than $100 Million Through 2025 | Center for Security and Emerging Technology
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CSET is a prominent AI policy think tank at Georgetown; this funding announcement signals growing institutional resources dedicated to AI governance and security research relevant to AI safety policy efforts.
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Announcement that the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University received a major funding boost bringing total support to over $100 million over five years, enabling expanded research on AI policy, security, and governance. This reflects significant institutional investment in AI policy research capacity in the United States.
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- •CSET secured funding exceeding $100 million over a five-year period through a new grant agreement.
- •The funding supports CSET's mission to provide policymakers with data and analysis on AI, emerging technologies, and national security.
- •This represents one of the largest sustained investments in an AI policy research institution.
- •Expanded funding enables CSET to grow its research staff and policy outreach capabilities.
- •CSET is a key institution bridging technical AI research and U.S. government policy decisions.
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New Grant Agreement Boosts CSET Funding to More than $100 Million Through 2025 | Center for Security and Emerging Technology
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New Grant Agreement Boosts CSET Funding to More than $100 Million Through 2025
August 25, 2021
CSET's new grant brings its total funding to more than $100 million to continue its research and analysis in emerging technologies and their impact on national and international security.
Washington, DC — An innovative think tank at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, soon to enter its third year, has a new vote of confidence from its main funder – both for the work that it has done and its policy outcomes – with an enhanced grant agreement that boosts total funding to more than $100 million.
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) was founded in early 2019 to provide policymakers with high-quality analysis of emerging technologies and their implications for national and international security.
“As technological collaboration becomes the policy watchword in Washington, CSET has provided a successful model for helping support decision-making with innovative data-driven policy research and recommendations,” said the center’s director, Dr. Dewey Murdick. “This model is unique among think tanks in that it provides funding that allows researchers to pursue the most important topics without being wedded to short-term project deliverables.
“Rather, the research agenda is shaped by experts, and the research outcomes are guided by rigorous methodology and evidence-based analysis drawing upon significant data holdings from diverse sources. Policymakers across the political spectrum, both in the United States and abroad, have relied on this research to make decisions on a range of key matters knowing that CSET offers nonpartisan, factual information.”
Murdick said credit is due not only to the CSET team, but also their supporters at Open Philanthropy, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Public Interest Technology University Network, and Georgetown who have trusted their approach. Open Philanthropy, CSET’s main funder, has just completed agreements with university officials to increase its grant by $42 million, boosting total funds to more than $100 million from 2019 to 2025.
In a relatively short time, CSET has grown to more than 50 full-time staff who have produced more than 120 data-rich reports focused on the nexus of emerging technology and national/ international security policy. CSET has established itself as a leader in understanding the implications of AI for global security and in helping to shape policy responses in Washington and beyond. And CSET is helping to prepare the next generation of leaders in this field and others by preparing its staff for positi
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