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From Land Mines to Drones, Tech Has Driven Fears About Autonomous ArmsThe next step in the progression toward more sophisticated autonomous weapons came in the form of “fire and forget” homing munitions like the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air...
By Paul Scharre
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Keeping Up with the Drones-esParticularly relevant to the future of war was one afternoon panel on R&D spending, where a trio of analysts shed some light on the debates in Washington over exactly how ...
By Paul Scharre
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The U.S. and 30 Other Nations Agree to Set Guardrails for Military AIChatGPT doesn’t appear to have been conscripted into military service yet, but the recent flourishing of chatbot technology seems to have prompted renewed and more serious deb...
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Governments Used to Lead Innovation. On AI, They’re Falling Behind.At the same time, American lawmakers are considering pouring billions of dollars into AI development amid concerns of competition with China. Senate Majority Leader Charles E....
By Paul Scharre
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Why Biden’s AI Executive Order Only Goes So FarThe Secretary of Commerce has been tasked with defining the AI models that are sufficiently dangerous to qualify for these requirements. As it stands, experts don’t know how t...
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What to Know About the U.S. Curbs on AI Chip Exports to ChinaBIS is seeking public comment on a number of questions, suggesting there could be further updates and offering some clues to the strategic direction the Commerce Department un...
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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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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...
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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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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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Who’s Winning the AI Race? It’s Not That Simple.
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This also isn’t a two-horse race. AI development is picking up pace around the world, and the technology’s underpinning of everything from email to missile systems raises the ...
By Paul Scharre
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The Next World Power Will Be the First to Harness the Power of AI, Former Defense Official Argues in New Book
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In his latest book, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," Scharre explores how the international battle for the most powerful AI technology is cha...
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What the ChatGPT Moment Means for U.S.-China Tech CompetitionIronically, Baidu’s chatbot Ernie was trained on English-language information from Wikipedia and Reddit, which are both blocked in China. “It’s going to be a difficult balanci...
By Paul Scharre & Sam Howell
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“Hyperwar”: How AI Could Cause Wars to Spiral Out of Human ControlFour Battlegrounds by Paul Scharre explores the competition between AI superpowers and the four key elements that define this struggle: data, computing power, talent, and inst...
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How AI became ‘the autocrat’s new toolkit’In an excerpt from "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," Paul Scharre writes about how China became the world's leading exporter of digital author...
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‘Four Battlegrounds’ Shaping the U.S. and China’s AI RaceWhen I was in Iraq during the surge in 2007, I saw this little ground robot being used to defuse a roadside bomb, and the lightbulb went on in my head about the value of robot...
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DoD’s Clarified AI Policy Flashes ‘Green Light’ for Robotic Weapons: Experts“The old directive basically [said], in order to get approval for certain systems, you had to go through this review process, but it didn’t explain how to do the process,” sai...
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The Pentagon Is Getting More Serious about AIIt’s unclear how much the Switchblades have been used in the conflict, but their presence underscore how the age of autonomous warfare has arrived, despite much of the debate ...
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Marines Outwitted an AI Security Camera by Hiding in a Cardboard Box and Pretending to Be TreesIn Paul Scharre’s new book Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Scharre recounts the story of one AI experiment that was disrupted by a squad of Ma...
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San Francisco Vote to Allow Police Use of Deadly Robots Spurs Concern and OutragePaul Scharre, the vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security, a think tank focused on national security issues, said the San Francisco pr...
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