Articles & Multimedia
Showing 281-300 of 870 Publications
-
The Missing Context in America's Competition with China
We need to drop the talk of a new “cold war” to describe the tense us-china rivalry. It isn’t one. Instead, it’s an unprecedented contest between two economic powerhouses with...
By Martijn Rasser
-
The Right Way to Structure Cyber Diplomacy
The State Department is once again confronting the challenge of how to organize itself to cope with new international challenges — not those of wartime, but ones created by ra...
By Laura Bate & Natalie Thompson
-
Sharper: The Future of European Leadership
When President Biden declared that "America is back," many European partners breathed a sigh of relief that the future may bring a much-desired era of stability—and predictabi...
By Carisa Nietsche, Nicholas Lokker & Anna Pederson
-
AI with military characteristics
What does AI mean for military might, and how are debates over autonomous weapons unfolding in diplomatic backchannels? Robert O. Work and Elsa Kania join FT innovation editor...
By Robert O. Work & Elsa B. Kania
-
Commercial satellites — not U.S. intelligence — revealed China’s missile program
The proliferation of commercial satellites has upended this near-monopoly on government intelligence gathering....
By Erik Lin-Greenberg & Theo Milonopoulos
-
Samuel Bendett on AI Development in Russia
What is happening in Russia right now with regards to development of artificial intelligence? In today’s bingecast, Samuel Bendett and Robert J. Marks discuss Russian military...
By Samuel Bendett
-
Cuba Needs a Free Internet
The online tug of war between dictator and dissident is nothing new. But the nature of that war is changing, and tomorrow’s digital battles will feature greater decentralizati...
By Richard Fontaine & Kara Frederick
-
A Plan to Secure America's Supply Chains
Supply chain vulnerabilities are a central component of the global technology competition....
By Martijn Rasser & Megan Lamberth
-
Hotels and Free Wi-Fi Are Sitting Ducks for North Korean Cybercriminals
The dangerous combination of weak or nonexistent cybersecurity protocols, relaxed travelers and employees, and increased e-commerce and digital financial activity provide an i...
By Jason Bartlett
-
Artificial intelligence arms race does not exist
Paul Scharre, former special assistant to the under secretary of defense for policy, now vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security, spok...
By Paul Scharre
-
Indo-Pacific Futures – Critical technology
Elsa Kania joins the National Security Podcast to discuss the technologies that have become critical to national security and how they’re going to shape the region over the co...
By Elsa B. Kania
-
How the Intelligence Community Can Get Better at Open Source Intel
The ubiquity and accessibility of this public data disrupts the assumed superiority of the government’s proprietary intelligence sources of methods...
By Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, Jr. (Ret.) & Neil Wiley
-
The United States Can’t Afford the Brutal Price of Chinese Solar Panels
Buying Chinese solar panels to reduce emissions is like using gas to put out a fire....
By Henry Wu
-
China still has weaknesses in terms of cutting-edge AI research, says expert
Elsa Kania discusses China and AI research to achieve self-reliance in the AI chips sector with CNBC. Watch the full video from CNBC....
By Elsa B. Kania
-
Debunking the AI Arms Race Theory
In 2015, a group of prominent AI and robotics researchers signed an open letter warning of the dangers of autonomous weapons. “The key question for humanity today,” they wrote...
By Paul Scharre
-
Some foresight about the future of foresight
Trying to predict the future is a timeless and time-consuming pursuit. Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being enlisted to the cause, but so too are “super-forecasters”...
By Michael Horowitz
-
Rethinking Research Security
Research security under the China Initiative may damage America’s ability to innovate and continue defining the cutting edge of technological research in the long term....
By Ainikki Riikonen & Emily Weinstein
-
The Dangers of Potential Russian Counter-UAV Technology Exports to Latin America
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has proliferated globally, resulting in myriad uses, both military and civilian. With the steady rise in non-military uses comes t...
By Samuel Bendett
-
Former deputy secretary of defense calls for technology competitiveness council
On June 9, 2021, Robert Work discussed his recommendations for establishing a technology competitiveness council under the vice president to create national strategies for sev...
By Robert O. Work
-
Sharper: Defense Tech
The prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, the growing centrality of information warfare, and threats to traditional command and control are redefining combat in ...
By Jennie Matuschak, Ainikki Riikonen & Anna Pederson