Meet the agency using AI to screen grant applicants for links to potential adversaries

The Department of Transportation has been using artificial intelligence to determine whether grant recipients have ties to adversarial nations, an agency official said on Wednesday. The federal government has taken a variety of steps in recent years to limit hostile foreign governments’ access to American research, including restricting access to individuals or entities connected with countries like Iran or Russia. As the U.S. seeks to maintain its dominance over China in the global t