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Technology & National Security
Growing conflict between Pentagon and tech engineersA dozen Google employees quit this week after more than 3,000 signed a petition demanding the tech giant not partner with the Pentagon; national security correspondent Jennife...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of WarWhat happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Or when a weapon that can hunt its own targets is hacked? Although it sounds like science fiction, the...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Analysis of the Trump Administration’s Drone Export PolicyPaul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, discusses the Trump Administration’s recent Drone Export Policy and its relat...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz
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Technology & National Security
Autonomous Weapons or “Killer Robots”: The Next Threat to World Peace?Our guest is Paul Scharre, a former Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s the director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New A...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
MWI Podcast: The Future of Autonomous War, with Paul ScharreThe fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and autonomous technology are exploding in development. So how will these advancements change the way we fight future ...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Reform weapons training to protect US troops from brain injuryTraumatic brain injury (TBI) is the signature wound of today’s wars, with nearly 380,000 servicemembers diagnosed since 2000. TBI can come from falls, bullets shrapnel, or the...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Technology & National Security
Podcast: Defense One Radio: Conversations with Eric Fanning, Paul Scharre and more.In this episode, recorded on Wednesday, May 2, 2018:Aerospace Industries Association CEO Eric Fanning sits down for a chat (30:25);• Then later (47:15) we’ll speak with f...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Autonomous Weapons and the Future of WarPaul Scharre served in combat beside Jack Murphy in the Army's 3rd Ranger Battalion, and he has just put out a truly thought provoking book that will leave you questioning how...
By Paul Scharre
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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