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Counterterrorism Lessons for the Digital Disinformation Fight
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Key lessons in countering cyber operations may be found in counterterrorism operations. Kara Frederick, associate fellow at the CNAS Technology and National Security Program, ...
By Kara Frederick
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Weaponizing Biotech: How China’s Military Is Preparing for a ‘New Domain of Warfare’
Commentary
Under Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy, the PLA is sponsoring research on gene editing, human performance enhancement, and more. We may be on the verge of a brave new...
By Elsa B. Kania & Wilson VornDick
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Why Are Deepfakes So Effective?
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Public opinion shifts, skewed election results, mass confusion, ethnic violence, war. All of these events could easily be triggered by deep fakes—realistic seeming but falsifi...
By Martijn Rasser
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Setting the Stage for U.S. Leadership in 6G
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Every day there are more headlines about China’s rise in 5G, the next generation of wireless communications technologies, and the economic and national security risksto the Un...
By Martijn Rasser
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8chan dropped by internet service provider after being tied to 3 shootings this year
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Kara Frederick joins Heather Childers on Fox and Friends First to discuss how tech companies and the federal government should respond to violent extremist content on message ...
By Kara Frederick
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Major Themes in China’s 2019 National Defense White Paper
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On July 24, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) issued its first new national defense white paper (NDWP) since 2015 (Xinhua). “China’s National Defense in a New Era” attempts...
By Elsa B. Kania & Peter Wood
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Will Silicon Valley Have to Choose Between End-to-End Crypto and Shutting Down Speech it Hates?
Podcast
Our guests this week are Paul Scharre from the Center for a New American Security and Greg Allen from the Defense Department’s newly formed Joint Artificial Intelligence Cente...
By Paul Scharre
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The United States Must Compete to Innovate in 5G
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5G promises exciting possibilities and daunting challenges. This transformative technology will be critical to enabling the fourth industrial revolution, creating new industri...
By Elsa B. Kania
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America must invest in expertise and skills to compete with China
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For the United States, a smart and serious approach to competition with China requires improving our understanding of this key rival. American strategy must be informed by car...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Innovation in the New Era of Chinese Military Power
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China’s State Council Information Office has just released a new national defense white paper, which is the first since the launch of major military reforms in 2015. This docu...
By Elsa B. Kania
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In Search of Ideas: The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Wants You
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Americans don’t want to grow old wondering what happened to their country’s place in the world. U.S. global leadership has fostered international institutions, strengthened hu...
By Robert O. Work & Eric Schmidt
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Oakland City Council takes steps in banning facial recognition use
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Technology and National Security Associate Fellow Kara Frederick appears on Fox & Friends First to discuss the deployment of facial recognition technology and American consume...
By Kara Frederick
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#5: Proliferation: Richard Danzig and Kara Frederick
Podcast
The challenge of technology is that it does not standstill. Security institutions have had to adapt to everything from the moat to the printing press to the machine gun to the...
By Richard Danzig & Kara Frederick
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Amazon reveals it stores customers' Amazon Echo voice recordings
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Amazon recently informed lawmakers that the company is storing voice recordings gathered from household devices like the Echo and Alexa. CNAS Associate Fellow Kara Frederick j...
By Kara Frederick
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This Is How to Solve America's Rare-Earths Dilemma
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Your computer, smartphone, car, your father’s pacemaker—they all require rare-earth elements. The U.S. military’s missile guidance systems, and platforms like fighter aircraft...
By Martijn Rasser & Ashley Feng
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Assange: the hunted man
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CNAS Adjunct Fellow Rachel Rizzo recently appeared in a documentary produced by a team of Arte reporters about activist Julian Assange's career and ongoing legal troubles. V...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Battlefield singularity, AI pixie dust, and the future of war
Podcast
On this National Security Podcast, Elsa Kania joins Katherine Mansted to talk about strategic competition in the age of artificial intelligence, the modernisation of China’s P...
By Elsa B. Kania
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Podcast
War has been a driver of breakthrough technology for a long time. The first waves of artificial intelligence and even the internet came out of DARPA, a defense agency whose or...
By Paul Scharre, Richard Danzig, Arati Prabhakar & Jonathan Wilson
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National Security Lightning Talks and Roundtables
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CNAS experts pitch their solutions to top national security challenges....
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, David Zikusoka, Cristina Killingsworth, Neil Bhatiya, Kristine Lee, Nicole Alexander, Ainikki Riikonen, Megan Lamberth & Elsa B. Kania
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Renewing the National Security Consensus in Congress
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Loren DeJonge Schulman discusses bipartisan solutions to complex foreign policy challenges with Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Chris Murphy (D-CT)....
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Senator Josh Hawley & Senator Chris Murphy
