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Foreign Policy Live: The Scramble for AI
In collaboration Foreign Policy Magazine, today we bring you a special bonus episode featuring Paul Scharre, Executive Vice President and Director of Studies here at CNAS. He ...
By Paul Scharre & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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How Militaries Are Using Artificial Intelligence on and off the Battlefield
Artificial intelligence has been a crucial tool for many nations’ militaries for years. Now, with the war in Ukraine driving innovation, AI’s role is likely to grow. Paul Scha...
By Paul Scharre
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Frontier AI Regulation: Managing Emerging Risks to Public Safety
We think that it is important to begin taking practical steps to regulate frontier AI today, and that the ideas discussed in this paper are a step in that direction....
By Markus Anderljung & Tim Fist
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China’s Military-Civil Fusion program: CNAS fellow Elsa Kania on the myths and realities
The Sinica podcast hosts Elsa Kania, a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University’s Department of Government and adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security who resear...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Weighing the Risks: Why a New Conversation is Needed on AI Safety
AI researchers, for their part, must go beyond government regulators in developing models in safe and responsible ways....
By Michael Depp
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War In The Age of AI. A Chilling, Mind-Blowing Talk With A Former Pentagon Defense Expert
The transformation to AI-enabled warfare is happening at breakneck speed. The stakes are huge and — given the sophistication and vulnerability of the weapons systems — so are ...
By Paul Scharre
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Quantum Computing is the Future — But We May Lose the Race if We Don’t Act Now
Now is an ideal time to create policies that protect U.S. quantum advantages and promote quantum strengths....
By Sam Howell
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How the attempted rebellion in Russia could affect Putin's war in Ukraine
After a short-lived mutiny exposed instability in Russia, we take a look at what the revolt means for the war in Ukraine. Geoff Bennett discussed that with Samuel Bendett, a R...
By Samuel Bendett
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Chinese Firms Are Evading Chip Controls
The U.S. government can erect significant barriers to China using advanced computing to power a new generation of dangerous military applications....
By Tim Fist, Jordan Schneider & Lennart Heim
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AI’s Gatekeepers Aren’t Prepared for What’s Coming
What is clear is that current state-of-the-art AI models are not safe and no one knows how to reliably make them safe....
By Paul Scharre
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Every Country Is on Its Own on AI
But establishing such an institution quickly enough to match AI’s accelerating progress is likely a pipe dream, given the history of nuclear arms controls and their status tod...
By Bill Drexel & Michael Depp
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The AI Challenge: Balancing Open and Closed Ecosystems
Tech debates, AI included, often boil down to a tug-of-war between open and closed systems. On one side, open allows interoperability, customization, and integration with thi...
By Pablo Chavez
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The Time to Regulate AI Is Now
Policymakers should also be under no illusion that a light regulatory touch will somehow prevent a degree of concentration at AI’s frontier....
By Caleb Withers
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The State of U.S. Technology Talent: A Whole-of-Nation Approach to Bolstering the Tech Talent Pool
Robust cooperation between tech talent stakeholders is important because America’s competitive edge will erode without adequate talent stores to drive sustained innovation for...
By Hannah Kelley
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Qualified to Compete: a New Approach to Credentials
The United States must simultaneously focus on cultivating its own talent pool to not only compete with China, but also to maintain technological leadership for decades to com...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Is an AI arms race underway?
The role of artificial intelligence has long been debated in military communities. But as recent leapfrog advancements in technology have garnered headlines about the effects ...
By Paul Scharre
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China Is Flirting With AI Catastrophe
Today’s AI sprint would not be the first time Beijing’s desire to hasten progress invited disaster....
By Bill Drexel & Hannah Kelley
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An AI Challenge: Balancing Open and Closed Systems
Navigating the spectrum between open and closed is critical to effective artificial intelligence policy. The right balance will promote innovation and competition while managi...
By Pablo Chavez
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Autonomous F-16 fighter jets being tested by the U.S. military
The U.S. military is testing an autonomous F-16 fighter jet that can make combat safer for American soldiers. In simulations, the AI already outflies trained human pilots. Her...
By Paul Scharre
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Congress ponders regulation of powerful emergent A.I. platforms
Can Congress keep up with the pace of growth in artificial intelligence? Paul Scharre of the Center for a New American Security talks about the current attempts to regulate A....
By Paul Scharre