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This announcement describes CSET's funding for CyberAI research, relevant for those tracking institutional efforts to study AI-cybersecurity intersections and inform national security policy.
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Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) announced a $2 million grant to fund a new CyberAI project focused on the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. The project aims to research how AI capabilities affect offensive and defensive cyber operations, informing policy recommendations at this critical junction.
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- •CSET received a $2 million grant to establish a dedicated CyberAI research project.
- •The project investigates the intersection of AI and cybersecurity, including both offensive and defensive implications.
- •Research aims to produce policy-relevant analysis on AI-enabled cyber threats and defenses.
- •CSET is a leading policy research organization at Georgetown focused on emerging technology and national security.
- •The initiative reflects growing concern among policymakers about AI's role in transforming the cybersecurity landscape.
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### In The News
# CSET Receives $2 Million Grant To Fund New CyberAI Project
The Hoya
December 6, 2019
Thanks to a generous grant from the Hewlett Foundation, CSET is launching a new Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence project to be led by Ben Buchanan. The project will examine the potential risks of AI in cyberspace and national security.
[See original article](https://thehoya.com/cset-receives-2-million-grant-to-fund-new-cyberai-project/)
The Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology is launching a project to study the effects of the rise of artificial intelligence on cyber operations.
The Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence project, known as CyberAI, will invite fellows and Georgetown University faculty to research increasing threats to cybersecurity, the effect of automation on cyber defense and the degree to which cyber operations will become faster and more powerful, [according](https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-Launching-Cybersecurity-and-AI-Project.pdf) to a Nov. 21 news release from the CSET. The project is funded by a $2 million grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a nonpartisan, private charitable foundation established by Hewlett-Packard co-founder and his wife.
Cyber operations specialists utilize computer programs to [create](https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/browse-career-and-job-categories/computers-and-technology/cyber-operations-specialist.html) an effect across cyberspace, according to the United States Army website. Offensive operations involve targeting an enemy and conducting hostile activities. Defensive operations are conducted to protect data, networks and systems by detecting, identifying and responding to attacks.
The CyberAI project will illuminate how artificial intelligence can be an important tool in improving the effectiveness of both offensive and defensive cyber operations, according to project leader and CSET senior faculty fellow Ben Buchanan.
“There’s some promise that it can enable defenders to better protect their networks, especially by finding signs of a breach,” Buchanan wrote in an email to The Hoya. “But AI also might enable the offensive side of cyber operations to be faster and more potent.”
The project will also examine the potential risks artificial intelligence may cause in cyberspace and national security. AI systems are susceptible to traditional software vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit. Hackers are also able to [manipulate](https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/10_22_19-Buchanan-Testimony-News-Release.pdf) machine learning systems to cause the network to fail or reveal confidential information, according to an Oct. 22 CSET news release.
[Established](https://thehoya.com/gu-establish-largest-ai-policy-center-united-states/) in January 2019, the CSET is the largest research center
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