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How can the United States maintain its artificial intelligence leadership in a new era of global competition?...
By Michael Horowitz, Kara Frederick, Elsa B. Kania, Ashley J. Llorens & Amanda Askell
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Commentary
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
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Commentary
This week the U.S. Congress will hold hearings focusing on the Defense Department’s progress on artificial intelligence, a critical technology area. On the agenda is the new N...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz
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Podcast
In 1983, Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov prevented what could have been a devastating nuclear war by trusting his gut instinct that the algorithm in his early-warning...
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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Commentary
An artificial intelligence arms race is coming. It is unlikely to play out in the way that the mainstream media suggest, however: as a faceoff between the United States and Ch...
By Michael Horowitz
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Commentary
Much of the debate over how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect geopolitics focuses on the emerging arms race between Washington and Beijing, as well as investments by ma...
By Michael Horowitz & Itai Barsade
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Podcast
From world leaders, to commercial titans, to scholars, more and more people are coming to believe that advances in artificial intelligence will change the world in dramat...
By Michael Horowitz
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Commentary
In early September 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin brought artificial intelligence from the labs of Silicon Valley, academia, and the basement of the Pentagon to the fo...
By Michael Horowitz
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Podcast
Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, discusses the Trump Administration’s recent Drone Export Policy and its relat...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz
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Commentary
Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment in the national security space. While the public may still equate the notion of artificial intelligence in the military context...
By Michael Horowitz
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Commentary
The Trump administration just announced a new drone export policy designed to make it easier for U.S. companies to export drones, including armed drones. Given concerns about ...
By Michael Horowitz & Joshua Schwartz
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Commentary
After 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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Podcast
In this episode of the Drones Podcast Series, CNAS experts Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander, and Paul Scharre discuss the Missile Technology Control Regime....
By Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
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Podcast
On this episode, Michael Horowitz, Dan Gettinger, and Alexandra Sander join Paul Scharre to discuss U.S. policy changes on unmanned aircraft exports in recent years....
By Michael Horowitz, Dan Gettinger, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
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Drones aren't missiles, so don't regulate them like they are
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a voluntary arrangement founded by seven countries in 1987 to prevent the spread of longe...
By Michael Horowitz
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The Future of War is Fast Approaching in the Pacific: Are the U.S. Military Services Ready?
Is the era of unparalleled U.S. conventional military superiority coming to an end? Many senior U.S. military leaders are worried. The ongoing general proliferation of precisi...
By Michael Horowitz
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The Ethics & Morality of Robotic Warfare: Assessing the Debate over Autonomous Weapons
There is growing concern in some quarters that the drones used by the United States and others represent precursors to the further automation of military force through the use...
By Michael Horowitz
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Who’ll want artificially intelligent weapons? ISIS, democracies, or autocracies?
One of the biggest fears about the nexus of artificial intelligence and the military is that machine learning—a type of artificial intelligence that allows computers to learn ...
By Michael Horowitz
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Building social science knowledge on public attitudes and autonomous weapons
Last week, Charli Carpenter published an important piece advancing the conversation about public attitudes, public conscience, and autonomous weapons. Her post critiqued my re...
By Michael Horowitz
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Dr. Michael Horowitz before the Subcommittee on Seapower and Power Projection Forces
Dr. Michael Horowitz, CNAS Adjunct Senior Fellow, testified before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Power Projection Forces....
By Michael Horowitz