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Why Alleged Pentagon Leaker Jack Teixeira Had Top Secret Access Aged 21"It is fairly commonplace for individuals of his age to have access to classified information," says Alexandria Seymour, an associate fellow at the Technology and National Sec...
By Alexandra Seymour
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US Federal Agents Arrest National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, 21, Over Leaked Intelligence Documents Revealing Ukraine War Secrets“It’s too soon to tell how much damage this will cause with US allies,” said Sam Howell, a researcher with the Centre for a New American Security. “At this point there’s signi...
By Sam Howell
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Pentagon should experiment with AIs like ChatGPT — but don’t trust them yet: DoD’s ex-AI chiefs“I’m excited about the potential,” said Lt. Gen. (ret.) Jack Shanahan, founding director of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) from 2018 to 2020. “I pl...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Old tactics could slow China's advances in technology raceWhile the chip-export controls may slow down China’s advances in technology, it may still be possible for Beijing to acquire the tech it needs for quantum development. “These ...
By Alexandra Seymour
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America Pausing AI Sparks Concerns About China Making GainsWhile China is a global leader in AI research, its response to OpenAI's new GPT-4 (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer), an even more powerful version of ChatGPT driven by a la...
By Paul Scharre
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The Other Chinese Apps Taking the US and UK by StormThis same concern has led the European Commission, the UK and Canada to ban TikTok from the phones of government employees. "How the US and other democratic countries address ...
By Paul Scharre
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Call for Pause in AI Development May Fall on Deaf EarsIn the letter calling for pause in development, the signatories use GPT-4 as a benchmark. GPT-4 is an AI tool developed by Open AI that is more powerful than the version that ...
By Bill Drexel
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America’s Commercial Sanctions on China Could Get Much WorseSuch advances may prompt America to modify its sanctions on chips, says Bill Drexel of the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS), a think-tank in Washington. It might choo...
By Sam Howell & Bill Drexel
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How Can the US Force TikTok to Sell?Hannah Kelley, a research assistant in the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Security, said that ByteDance is unlikely to divest and su...
By Hannah Kelley
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Biden Signs Executive Order to Clamp Down on Commercial SpywareAlexandra Seymour, an associate fellow for the technology and national security programme at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), told Middle East Eye that the execu...
By Alexandra Seymour
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A TikTok Ban May Be Just the BeginningA TikTok ban isn’t hypothetical: In 2020, president Trump signed an executive order restricting Americans’ use of WeChat, leading to pushback from corporations and individuals...
By Hannah Kelley
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No Line to Be Drawn' in Tech War With China, Says Former Commerce Department BIS OfficialAs the US rallies Japan and the Netherlands to join forces in strengthening the semiconductor equipment sanctions against China, Nikahtar observed that US allies don't always ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Factbox: Why a broad US TikTok ban is unlikely to take effect soon"Banning the app - or any like it - would likely still be challenged under the First Amendment. It's important to keep in mind the Berman Amendment under IEEPA is a proxy for ...
By John Costello
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China, Russia Target Audiences Online With Deep Fakes, Replica Front PagesCurrently, the technology is far from being perfected, according to Bill Drexel, who researches artificial intelligence at the Center for a New American Security think tank in...
By Bill Drexel
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AI Isn’t Yet Going to Take Your Job — But You May Have to Work With ItLooking ahead, retailers might use computer vision to automatically identify whether a customer is old enough to buy alcohol, Chakravarty said, adding that the tech is in earl...
By Christian Beckner
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China Reorganizing Science and Tech Ministry for Self-SufficiencyBill Drexel, a fellow in the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, told VOA Mandarin via email on March 10 that while the U.S. ex...
By Bill Drexel
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Biden's Latest Move Against TikTok Raises Questions About Ban, Owner SaleHannah Kelley, a research assistant in the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Security, said she doesn’t believe that ByteDance will agr...
By Hannah Kelley
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Downing of MQ-9 Reaper is Latest US Drone Lost in Contested ZoneSamuel Bendett, an expert at the Center for Naval Analyses, told C4ISRNET Russian media and other parties closely monitor “drone flights in the Black Sea and the proximity to ...
By Samuel Bendett
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U.S. MQ-9 'Reaper' Drones Compared to Russia's 'Orion' UAVRussia's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is not quite as formidable, however, according to Samuel Bendett, Russia analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses. Bendett told Newswe...
By Samuel Bendett
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The AI Lockout“There is active research happening on how to solve this problem and allow training to be done in a more decentralized way,” says Tim Fist, an incoming fellow at the Center fo...
By Tim Fist
