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Technology & National Security
The U.S. says humans will always be in control of AI weapons. But the age of autonomous war is already here.Picture a desert battlefield, scarred by years of warfare. A retreating army scrambles to escape as its enemy advances. Dozens of small drones, indistinguishable from the quad...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Martijn Rasser Named Director of the Technology and National Security ProgramWashington, June 28, 2021—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Martijn Rasser has been named Director of the Technology and National Secur...
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Technology & National Security
Department of Defense AI ethics principles still lack implementation guidanceThe Department of Defense will produce guidance for its artificial intelligence ethical principles by late August, six months after an initial self-directed deadline for the c...
By Paul Scharre
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In The News
Technology & National Security
FBI China spy probe faces backlash as case against professor ends in mistrialAn FBI agent’s admission he baselessly targeted a Chinese Canadian researcher in an economic espionage probe is driving calls for a federal investigation into the Justice Depa...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
A warning to DoD: Russia advances quicker than expected on AI, battlefield techThe Russian military is more technologically advanced than the U.S. realized and is quickly developing artificial intelligence capabilities to gain battlefield information adv...
By Jeffrey Edmonds & Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
EU, US launch trade, technology council to outcompete ChinaThe European Union and United States launched a trade and technology council that seeks to “write the rules of the road” on the global economy, in the face of growing competit...
By Martijn Rasser
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
CNAS Responds: Biden Meets with World Leaders on First International TripThis week, President Biden traveled to Europe in a week long tour of high-level summit meetings with leaders from key allies. In the advisory below, CNAS experts unpack the ke...
By Richard Fontaine, Lisa Curtis, Michael Kofman, Martijn Rasser, Rachel Rizzo, Jacob Stokes, Jim Townsend & Carisa Nietsche
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Rising China hovers over G-7 summitAll eyes will be on Britain when the leaders of the G-7 convene Friday on the shores of Carbis Bay in Cornwall. They won’t be at the table, but the specter looming over the fe...
By Martijn Rasser
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Will Europe sign up to Joe Biden’s plan to counter China?Ever since he entered the White House in January, Joe Biden has articulated one foreign policy goal above others — to work with allies to restrain China.After the drama and ta...
By Martijn Rasser
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In The News
Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Biden signs order banning investment in dozens of Chinese defence and tech firmsUS President Joe Biden on Thursday (June 3) barred Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese companies in the defence sector or whose surveillance technology aids in serio...
By Martijn Rasser
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Get Ready For the Mad Max New World of Hijacked Electric Cars and Downed Power GridsIf American motorists behave like typical consumers, they will notice a steep drop in the price of electric vehicles around the middle of the decade, and begin to snap them up...
By Richard Fontaine
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Technology & National Security
Russia Is Building an Army of Robot Weapons, and China's AI Tech Is HelpingRussia is developing an array of autonomous weapons platforms utilizing artificial intelligence as part of an ambitious push supported by high-tech cooperation with neighborin...
By Samuel Bendett & Jeffrey Edmonds
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Technology & National Security
Whose News?The day Joe Biden was sworn in as president — January 20, 2021 — was a good day for news apps. Stuck at home due to the global pandemic, many Americans turned to their phones ...
By Martijn Rasser
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Red Cross Calls for More Limits on Autonomous WeaponsThe International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for new international rules on how governments use autonomous weapons, warning that such weapons will pose new challeng...
By Paul Scharre
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Biden's new CISA director will confront a host of complex challengesThe next leader of the nation's top cybersecurity agency will inherit a bevy of crises. President Biden has nominated Jen Easterly, the head of Morgan Stanley’s global fusion ...
By John Costello
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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
Licensed to Kill: How Russia Uses Israeli Drones to Bomb Civilians in SyriaWhen Israeli-licensed military drones first took off from Syrian air force bases to stalk opponents of Bashar Assad’s regime, shortly after Russia’s 2015 intervention, they we...
By Samuel Bendett
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Defense / Technology & National Security
"What degree of human involvement should there be in the use of force?"In an interview with the Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight, Paul Scharre offers insights on weapon autonomy and the human role in future warfighting. After multiple t...
By Paul Scharre
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking championsOnce a month, senior executives of Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. fly to Beijing for a flurry of meetings with China's top economic management bodies. They focus on the compa...
By Martijn Rasser
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Is Washington prepared for a geopolitical ‘tech race’?When Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sat down with Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska for the first high-level bilateral summ...
By Jordan Schneider
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Inside Russia’s Robot Army: Rhetoric vs. RealityRussia has created a new robotic combat unit of Uran-9 unmanned ground vehicles, which have been battle-tested in Syria, though with mixed results. It’s also developing an exp...
By Samuel Bendett
