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Technology & National Security
Author Discussion on Artificial IntelligenceA discussion on artificial intelligence from the 16th annualAnnapolis Book Festival that featured Amir Husain, The Sentient Machine, and Paul Scharre, ...
By Paul Scharre
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Podcast
Technology & National Security
Report to Army Finds Blast from Some Weapons May Put Shooter's Brain at RiskMilitary personnel may be endangering their own brains when they operate certain shoulder-fired weapons, according to an Army-commissioned report released Monday. The re...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Technology & National Security
Killer Robot Technologies with Paul ScharreWe interview Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director, Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New American Security, and author of Army of ...
By Paul Scharre
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
The future of war will be fought by machines, but will humans still be in charge?Drone swarms. Self-driving tanks. Autonomous sentry guns. Sometimes it seems like the future of warfare arrived on our doorstep overnight, and we’ve all been caught unprepared...
By Paul Scharre
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
The first drone warship just joined the Navy and now nearly every element of it is classifiedThe first warship to traverse open waters without a single crew member recently joined the U.S. Navy's fleet after eight years of development and testing. And now nearly every...
By Paul Scharre
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Podcast
Technology & National Security
Autonomous Weapons Would Take Warfare To A New Domain, Without HumansKiller robots have been a staple of TV and movies for decades, from Westworldto The Terminator series. But in the real world, killer robots are officially known...
By Paul Scharre
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
China’s AI talent ‘arms race’Perhaps, the real ‘arms race’ in artificial intelligence (AI) is not military competition but the battle for talent. Since the vast majority of the world’s top AI experts rema...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
The promise and peril of military applications of artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment in the national security space. While the public may still equate the notion of artificial intelligence in the military context...
By Michael Horowitz
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
The Pursuit of AI Is More Than an Arms RaceAre the U.S., China, and Russia recklessly undertaking an “AI arms race”? Clearly, there is military competition among these great powers to advance a range of applications of...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
A new U.S. policy makes it (somewhat) easier to export dronesThe Trump administration just announced a new drone export policy designed to make it easier for U.S. companies to export drones, including armed drones. Given concerns about ...
By Michael Horowitz & Joshua Schwartz
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
China’s Strategic Ambiguity and Shifting Approach to Lethal Autonomous Weapons SystemsOn April 13, China’s delegation to United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systemsannounced the “desire to negotiate and conclude” a new prot...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
How network tools can improve base securityIn 2011, the simple exploitation of an existing data set could have prevented a near disaster in northern Afghanistan. Then, an entire operations center watched as the feed fr...
By Kara Frederick
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Technology & National Security
Will killer robots save us or destroy humanity? | The StreamA group of scientists is campaigning for a preemptive ban on autonomous weapons technology that may someday power what they call "killer robots”. Those who support the develop...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Human judgment and lethal decision-making in warFor the fifth year in a row, government delegates meet at the United Nationsin Geneva to discuss autonomous weapons. Meanwhile, the technology that enables greater autonomy in...
By Paul Scharre
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Meet the New Robot ArmyIn contemporary sci-fi—HBO’s “Westworld,” for example—sentient machines take up arms against humanity. In the real world, intelligent—and increasingly autonomous—robots are be...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Ethics and the Future of Artificial IntelligenceJoin Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, in a discussion with Amir Husain about the ethical implications of artif...
By Paul Scharre & Amir Husain
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Careful what you wish for—change and continuity in China’s cyber threat activities (part 2)At a time when ‘cyber anarchy’ seems to prevail in the international system, the emergence in 2015 of US–China consensus against ‘cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property’...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Artificial Intelligence and National SecurityPartially autonomous and intelligent systems have been used in militarytechnology since at least the Second World War, but advances in machinelearning and Artificial Intellige...
By Gregory C. Allen & Taniel Chan
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Technology & National Security
The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and MitigationArtificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities are growingat an unprecedented rate. These technologies have many widelybeneficial applications, ranging from machine...
By Paul Scharre
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Commentary
Defense / Technology & National Security
Soldier Swarm: New ground Combat Tactics for the Era of Multi-Domain BattleWhen the US military prepares to fight its next major war, it won’t be planning to fight the insurgents it has faced over the last fifteen years. As China and Russia begin to ...
By Lauren Fish & Justin Lynch
