Articles & Multimedia

Showing 1-18 of 18 Publications

• Podcast
  • February 15, 2019
  Inside China Tech: Analysing China’s race with the US for AI dominance

  This week, Zen Soo looks at how China and the US compete for technological supremacy in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), and how this is affected by the US-China tra...

  By Gregory C. Allen

• Commentary
  • February 13, 2019
  White House AI Executive Order and DoD AI Strategy

  This week, the U.S. government released two major new strategic documents on artificial intelligence. The White House published an executive order by President Trump launching...

  By Robert O. Work, Paul Scharre, Gregory C. Allen, Kara Frederick, Michael Horowitz & Elsa B. Kania

• Podcast
  • July 25, 2018
  Strategic Competition in an Era of Artificial Intelligence

  Kara Frederick hosts a session with Paul Scharre and Gregory C. Allen on the third report of CNAS’ AI and International Security series, “Strategic Competition in an Era of Ar...

  By Paul Scharre, Kara Frederick & Gregory C. Allen

• Podcast
  • July 11, 2018
  Artificial Intelligence and International Security

  Kara Frederick, from the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, hosts a discussion on the basics of artificial intelligence and its impact on national security with...

  By Paul Scharre, Kara Frederick, Edoardo Saravalle & Gregory C. Allen

• Commentary
  • Nature
  • June 22, 2018
  AI researchers should help with some military work

  In January, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said that artificial intelligence (AI) would have a “more profound” impact than even electricity. He was following a long trad...

  By Gregory C. Allen

• Podcast
  • May 29, 2018
  a16z Podcast: Autonomy in Service

  We now live in a world where connecting the dots between intel and modeling threats has become infinitely more complex: not only is the surface area to protect larger than eve...

  By Gregory C. Allen

• Commentary
  • Belfer Center
  • April 6, 2018
  Artificial Intelligence and National Security

  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

• Podcast
  • March 14, 2018
  The Intersection of Commercial and Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the U.S.

  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

• Commentary
  • CNN
  • December 30, 2017
  The Pentagon is using AI to fight ISIS but it's not quite the 'Terminator'

  Conversations about the military use of artificial intelligence usually bring to mind the "Terminator" movies, where a super-intelligent AI turns evil and tries to destroy hum...

  By Gregory C. Allen

• Commentary
  • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • December 21, 2017
  Project Maven brings AI to the fight against ISIS

  Maven is designed to be that pilot project, that pathfinder, that spark that kindles the flame front of artificial intelligence across the rest of the [Defense] Department. - ...

  By Gregory C. Allen

• Commentary
  • Council on Foreign Relations
  • December 4, 2017
  China’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy Poses a Credible Threat to U.S. Tech Leadership

  Last 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

• Commentary
  • The Hill
  • November 20, 2017
  It’s time for congressional hearings on weaponized AI

  Progress 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

• • Transcript
  • November 13, 2017
  Eric Schmidt Keynote Address at the Center for a New American Security Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Summit

  Transcript 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

• • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • September 8, 2017
  China Is Using America’s Own Plan to Dominate the Future of Artificial Intelligence

  In 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

• • Commentary
  • CNN
  • September 5, 2017
  Putin and Musk are right: Whoever masters AI will run the world

  Last 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

• • Commentary
  • War on the Rocks
  • July 21, 2017
  The Future of Military Robotics Looks Like a Nature Documentary

  BBC has followed up 2006’s Planet Earth, perhaps the greatest nature documentary of all time, with an even greater sequel. This past week, Planet Earth II received 10 Emmy Awa...

  By Gregory C. Allen

• Podcast
  • July 20, 2017
  Artificial Intelligence and National Security

  Gregory Allen, a new adjunct fellow with the CNAS Technology and National Security Program, discusses a report that he recently co-authored a report on artificial intelligence...

  By Gregory C. Allen & Neal Urwitz

• • Commentary
  • Wired
  • July 1, 2017
  AI Will Make Forging Anything Entirely Too Easy

  “Lordy, I hope there are tapes,” said an exasperated James Comey in his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8. Comey’s desire reflects a familiar one fo...

  By Gregory C. Allen