Zachary Arnold
Analytic Lead,
Emerging Technology Observatory
Writing on tech
9/2023
AI tools as science policy advisers? The potential and the pitfalls
(with several co-authors)
8/2023
The Next Frontier in AI Regulation Is Procedure
(with Micah Musser)
7/2022
"China's AI companies: hybrid players" (with Karen Sutter) and "The balance sheet: China's AI advantages and challenges" (with Anna Puglisi), in
Chinese Power and Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives and Challenges
(Routledge, 2022)
7/2021
AI Accidents: An Emerging Threat
(with Helen Toner)
4/2021
Chinese Students Are Not a Fifth Column
(with Remco Zwetsloot)
3/2021
Understanding Chinese Government Guidance Funds
(with Ngor Luong and Ben Murphy)
1/2021
A New Institutional Approach to Research Security in the United States
(with Melissa Flagg)
10/2020
Most of America’s “Most Promising” AI Startups Have Immigrant Founders
(with Tina Huang and Remco Zwetsloot)
9/2020
Tracking AI Investment: Initial Findings From the Private Markets
(with Ilya Rahkovsky and Tina Huang)
7/2020
The US is Turning Away The World’s Best Minds—and This Time, They May Not Come Back
(with Tina Huang)
1/2020
Foreign Brains Help America Compete
(with Remco Zwetsloot)
12/2019
Chinese Public AI R&D Spending: Provisional Findings
(with Ashwin Acharya)
9/2019
Immigration Policy and the U.S. AI Sector
(with Roxanne Heston, Remco Zwetsloot and Tina Huang)
Other work
3/2021
Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
on cross-border investment controls
6/2017
Preventing Industrial Disasters in a Time of Climate Change: A Call for Financial Assurance Mandates