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How network tools can improve base security
Commentary
In 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
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Will killer robots save us or destroy humanity? | The Stream
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A group of scientists is campaigning for a preemptive ban on autonomous weapons technology that may someday power what they call "killer robots”. Those who support the develop...
By Paul Scharre
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Human judgment and lethal decision-making in war
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For the fifth year in a row, government delegates meet at the United Nationsin Geneva to discuss autonomous weapons. Meanwhile, the technology that enables greater autonomy in...
By Paul Scharre
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Meet the New Robot Army
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In contemporary sci-fi—HBO’s “Westworld,” for example—sentient machines take up arms against humanity. In the real world, intelligent—and increasingly autonomous—robots are be...
By Paul Scharre
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Ethics and the Future of Artificial Intelligence
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Join Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, in a discussion with Amir Husain about the ethical implications of artif...
By Paul Scharre & Amir Husain
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Careful what you wish for—change and continuity in China’s cyber threat activities (part 2)
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At a time when ‘cyber anarchy’ seems to prevail in the international system, the emergence in 2015 of US–China consensus against ‘cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property’...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Artificial Intelligence and National Security
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Partially autonomous and intelligent systems have been used in militarytechnology since at least the Second World War, but advances in machinelearning and Artificial Intellige...
By Gregory C. Allen & Taniel Chan
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The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities are growingat an unprecedented rate. These technologies have many widelybeneficial applications, ranging from machine...
By Paul Scharre
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Careful What You Wish for—Change and Continuity in China’s Cyber Threats (Part 1)
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Although there’s been a discernible reduction in the magnitude of Chinese cyber intrusions in the past few years, the threat has been transformed, not diminished. While US dip...
By Elsa B. Kania
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'Tech Tyranny': How Google plans to help China
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By Paul Scharre
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As it frets over China, Europe is forgetting the real threat: Russia
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Europe is right to be wary of China’s growing economic footprint on the Continent. Beijing’s attempts to nudge European policy in a direction that serves its strategic interes...
By Anthony Cho
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Much ado about Huawei (part 1)
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Huawei has provoked recurrent concerns and generated nearly incessant controversy in recent news cycles. In the US, the potential for Huawei to dominate 5G network services wa...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Transcript: CNAS AI Task Force Press Briefing
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By Paul Scharre, Robert O. Work, Amir Husain & Cole Stevens
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China’s Quest for Political Control and Military Supremacy in the Cyber Domain
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The People’s Republic of China seeks to contest information dominance (制信息权) and discursive dominance (话语权) in cyberspace. For the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), cybersecurity...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Intersection of Commercial and Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the U.S.
Podcast
Join Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security Program at CNAS, in a discussion with Brendan McCord and Gregory C. Allen about the chall...
By Paul Scharre, Brendan McCord & Gregory C. Allen
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Everything here is fake
Commentary
I recently had a private tour of Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. I was shown the famous stage where the original “King Kong” was filmed. “Do you know how big the real King K...
By Robert Kaplan
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Is China seeking “quantum surprise?”
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Hype about artificial intelligence (AI) seems at or near a peak. A wave of hype is also emerging around quantum technologies, particularly quantum computing. When these two wa...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the United States Air Force
Podcast
Join Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, in a discussion with Capt Michael Kanaan about how artificial intelligen...
By Paul Scharre & Capt Michael Kanaan
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Why Drones Are Still the Future of War
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In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald argue, based on their research interviewing U.S. ground troops, that troops prefer close air suppo...
By Paul Scharre
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What's Next for Artificial Intelligence?
Podcast
Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director, Technology and National Security interviews Andrew Moore, Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University on the...
By Paul Scharre
