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Ukraine primes air defences for new Russian winter assault on power gridUkraine appears to have prepared well for more strikes by drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), but their gradually increasing numbers could pose a problem, said Samuel B...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Why Ukraine is able to embarrass Russia's air defense systems, among the most advanced in the world, with small drones"Russia boasted of having layered defenses before the war, the sensor electronic warfare, different missile batteries, kinetic batteries, radars, that can sort of identify and...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Russians Are Developing An Arsenal Of Deadlier FPV Drones — But Bureaucracy Is Holding Them BackSamuel Bendett, an expert Russian drones and adviser to both the CNA and CNAS, told Forbes that at present Russian FPVs are mainly used by irregular units from the Russian-con...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
AI Expert: ‘China Mobile’s Work in the UN Is Particularly Concerning Because It Could Shape Norms around the World’A Chinese state-owned company has submitted proposals to the UN for digital ID requirements for the metaverse. Bill Drexel, an associate fellow for the Technology and National...
By Bill Drexel
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Technology & National Security
Fifty minutes to hack ChatGPT: Inside the DEF CON competition to break AI“One thing you just can’t do internally is red team at scale,” Michael Sellitto, a policy official at Anthropic, told CyberScoop in an interview on the sidelines of the event....
By Michael Sellitto
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Technology & National Security
Hackers in Vegas take on AIThe industry is keenly aware of the growing attention these security-focused communities are receiving from the federal government when it comes to evaluating new technologies...
By Michael Sellitto
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Technology & National Security
Russia Is Replicating Iranian Drones and Using Them to Attack UkraineMilitary analysts have been watching to see whether Russia would be able to make its own one-way attack drones since the Iranian weapons entered the conflict, according to Sam...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Bill Drexel and Hannah Kelley on Chinese AICRR: Thank you both for taking the time to share your expertise. Before we dive into things, let’s provide some context. What is artificial intelligence, or AI, and why is it ...
By Bill Drexel & Hannah Kelley
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Technology & National Security
Behind Ukraine’s Deadly Drones: Putin’s Invasion and Biden’s Limits“The Ukrainian defense industry is learning and adapting very quickly,” said Samuel Bendett, an expert on unmanned aerial vehicles at the Center for Naval Analyses, a federall...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI“Once that software has been developed, it’s effectively costless for that software to proliferate and be reused elsewhere,” said Paul Scharre, a drone expert at the Center fo...
By Paul Scharre & Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
NOTEWORTHY: Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AIIn this edition of Noteworthy, researchers from the AI Safety and Stability team comment on the announcement from the White House on securing voluntary commitments on safety, ...
By Paul Scharre, Tim Fist, Bill Drexel, Michael Depp, Caleb Withers & Noah Greene
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Technology & National Security
AI: How far is China behind the West?"The most cutting-edge AI systems require massive amounts of hardware — thousands of very specialized chips, running for weeks or months at a time," Paul Scharre, executive vi...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Inspired by Ukraine war, Taiwan launches drone blitz to counter ChinaToday, China has virtually cornered the global commercial drone market, accounting for an estimated 80% of sales, according to some industry estimates. This is a key advantage...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Ground vehicles are the new frontier in Ukraine's drone warOne advantage of UGVs is their low cost - the parts for Hnatok's smaller machines cost less than 30,000 hryvnias ($812). The impact of combat UGVs from both sides has been ext...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Drexel: AI Research by U.S. Companies in China Is ‘Fueling the Repressions in Xinjiang and Elsewhere’Bill Drexel, an associate fellow for the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Security, said the U.S. unknowingly assisted China’s repress...
By Bill Drexel
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Technology & National Security
Cheap Russian drone a menace to Ukrainian troops and equipmentRussia's defence ministry has been encouraging an increase of production of the Lancet as a cheap way to hit high-value western equipment given to Ukraine for its counteroffen...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Responds: Deputy Sec. Def: What the Pentagon Thinks about Artificial IntelligenceLast week, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks wrote the op-ed, What the Pentagon Thinks About Artificial Intelligence, shedding light on the Pentagon's perspective on ...
By Josh Wallin, Bill Drexel & Michael Depp
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Technology & National Security
Are federal agencies’ post-quantum cryptography preparations on track?“The consequences associated with the Snowden leaks or the recent Discord leaks would pale in comparison to the consequences associated with agencies’ failure to comply with t...
By Sam Howell
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Technology & National Security
U.S. Grapples With Potential Threats From Chinese AIAny policy banning investment such as Qualcomm’s would be challenging to articulate and enforce. Simply examining the code of a given AI system wouldn’t necessarily reveal its...
By Tim Fist
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Technology & National Security
Russia’s 'Sirius' Prototype Killer Drone Caught Flying on CameraSamuel Bendett, an expert on Russian uncrewed systems and AI at the Center for Naval Analyses and the CNAS think tank, wrote to Pop Mech: “Sirius is a pre-war legacy system, a...
By Samuel Bendett