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Paul Scharre on NPR: The Challenges Of Regulating Autonomous WeaponsAutonomous weapons, capable of operating independent of human control, are being developed by several countries around the world. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Paul Scharre o...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
China Is On a Whole-of-Nation Push for AI. The US Must Match ItChina has made no secret of its ambitions to lead the world in artificial intelligence, nor of the military and geopolitical advantage it hopes to gain from this rapidly advan...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Artificial Intelligence and Chinese PowerThe United States’ technological sophistication has long supported its military predominance. In the 1990s, the U.S. military started to hold an uncontested advantage over its...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
China’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy Poses a Credible Threat to U.S. Tech LeadershipLast month, Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, delivered a wake-up call: the unchallenged technological supremacy that the United States has enjoy...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Cyber and Space Weapons Are Making Nuclear Deterrence TrickierStability was an overriding concern at last week’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on nuclear command authority, the first in four decades. Senators wondered aloud ...
By Richard Fontaine & James N. Miller, Jr.
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
More Training Won’t Reduce Your Cyber RiskHow many times have you had to watch your company’s latest cybersecurity training video? An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate compu...
By Michael Sulmeyer & Mari Dugas
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
It’s time for congressional hearings on weaponized AIProgress in AI technology, according to one of its leading researchers, will bring about “an equally large transformation” as the electricity revolution did roughly a century ...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Technology & National Security
The Leap Into Quantum Technology: A Primer for National Security ProfessionalsChina recently announced the launch of its Jinan Project, a quantum information effort billed as “the world’s first unhackable computer network.” Building on its launch last y...
By Richard Fontaine & Michael J. Biercuk
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Commentary
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
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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Commentary
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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Commentary
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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Commentary
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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Podcast
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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Commentary
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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Commentary
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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Commentary
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
