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Technology & National Security
White House AI Executive Order and DoD AI StrategyThis 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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Technology & National Security
AI researchers should help with some military workIn 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
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Technology & National Security
Artificial Intelligence and National SecurityPartially 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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Technology & National Security
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
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Technology & National Security
Project Maven brings AI to the fight against ISISMaven 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
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Technology & National Security
China’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy Poses a Credible Threat to U.S. Tech LeadershipLast 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
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Technology & National Security
It’s time for congressional hearings on weaponized AIProgress 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
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Technology & National Security
China Is Using America’s Own Plan to Dominate the Future of Artificial IntelligenceIn 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
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Technology & National Security
Putin and Musk are right: Whoever masters AI will run the worldLast 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
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The Future of Military Robotics Looks Like a Nature DocumentaryBBC 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
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Technology & National Security
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