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Technology & National Security
The critical human element in the machine age of warfareIn 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped to prevent the accidental outbreak of nuclear war by recognizing that a false alarm in Soviet early warning systems was not a real report of a...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Should we fear killer robots?Physicist Stephen Hawking recently warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence and "powerful autonomous weapons." Autonomous technology is racing forward, but internation...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Remarks by Paul Scharre to the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon SystemsGeneva, Switzerland As we have heard this week, artificial intelligence and autonomy are rapidly advancing. While no nation has said they will build autonomous weapons, the t...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Lethal Autonomous Weapons and Policy-Making Amid Disruptive Technological ChangeThis week, countries are meeting at the United Nations to discuss lethal autonomous weapons and the line between human and machine decision-making. One complicating factor in ...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
We’re Losing Our Chance to Regulate Killer RobotsScores of countries are gathering at the United Nations this week to discuss lethal autonomous weapon systems – essentially, robots that would pick their own targets. This mar...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Eric Schmidt Keynote Address at the Center for a New American Security Artificial Intelligence and Global Security SummitTranscript prepared by Gregory C. Allen and Anthony Cho. This transcript has been edited for clarity. Discussion starts at :30 of video. Paul Scharre: So thanks for joini...
By Paul Scharre, Anthony Cho, Gregory C. Allen & Eric Schmidt
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Technology & National Security
Stephen Hawking, Artificial Intelligence, and the UN SummitThis week, countries discuss lethal autonomous weapons at the United Nations, while Stephen Hawking warns of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Paul Scharre, Director of ...
By Paul Scharre & Neal Urwitz
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Technology & National Security
The Lethal Autonomous Weapons Governmental Meeting (Part I: Coping with Rapid Technological Change)This week nations meet at the United Nations to discuss lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), including robotic weapons that might hunt for targets on their own. It has bee...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Emerging technology could make China the world’s next innovation superpowerDuring China’s 19th Party Congress in October, President Xi Jinping placed innovation at the center of China’s national strategy. His remarks called for building China into a ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Will Killer Robots Be Banned? Lessons from Past Civil Society CampaignsAfter several years of debate, on November 13-17, 2017, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will convene a Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) to discuss the ...
By Michael Horowitz
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Technology & National Security
The United States Can Be a World Leader in AI. Here's How.The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is upon us. Artificial general intelligence—machines that could perform the full range of intellectual tasks better than humans—are...
By Paul Scharre & Alexander Velez-Green
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Technology & National Security
The Policy Dimension of Leading in AIThe artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is creating new challenges for law, policy, and governance at domestic and international levels. Although advances in AI could caus...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Event: A Conversation with Sir Adrian Fulford, UK Investigatory Powers CommissionerLast year, the United Kingdom passed the Investigatory Powers Bill, which codifies the British government's domestic surveillance authorities. The bill req...
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Technology & National Security
Autonomous Weapons and the Future of WarThe weapons of war and terrorism are on the cusp of a revolution that will change the battlefield and the world in ways that we're just coming to understand. That future is ju...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
National Competition in Artificial IntelligenceVladimir Putin recently said that whoever leads in artificial intelligence "will be ruler of the world." Elon Musk has warned that national competition in AI is the "most like...
By Paul Scharre & Neal Urwitz
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Technology & National Security
Why We Must Not Build Automated Weapons of WarOver 100 CEOs of artificial intelligence and robotics firms recently signed an open letter warning that their work could be repurposed to build lethal autonomous weapons — “ki...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
The Collapsing Battlespace: NATO–Russian Nuclear Stability in an Era of Technological UpheavalThe military-technological environment has always been in a state of flux. But today, it is changing faster and in more ways than ever before. A series of new military technol...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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Technology & National Security
China Is Using America’s Own Plan to Dominate the Future of Artificial IntelligenceIn late 2016, the Obama administration published three reports that shared an extraordinary conclusion: advances in machine learning, a technology that allows systems to learn...
By Gregory C. Allen & Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Putin and Musk are right: Whoever masters AI will run the worldLast Friday, a million Russian schoolchildren watched a televised address from Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Artificial intelligence is the future, not only of Russia, bu...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Technology & National Security
The trouble with trying to ban 'killer robots'Last month more than 100 robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) company CEOs signed an open letter to the UN warning of the dangers of autonomous weapons. For the past thre...
By Paul Scharre