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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...
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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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...
By Paul Scharre
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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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‘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...
By Paul Scharre
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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...
By Paul Scharre
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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...
By Paul Scharre
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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...
By Paul Scharre
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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 ...
By Paul Scharre
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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...
By Paul Scharre
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San Francisco Considers Allowing Use of Deadly Robots by PolicePaul Scharre, the vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security and the author of “Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War,” ...
By Paul Scharre
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San Francisco Considers Allowing Law Enforcement Robots to Use Lethal ForcePaul Scharre is author of the book Army Of None: Autonomous Weapons And The Future Of War. He helped create the U.S. policy for autonomous weapons used in war. Scharre notes t...
By Paul Scharre
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Israel Deploys Remote-Controlled Robotic Guns in West BankIn Al-Aroub, residents say the machines fire without warning. “It is very fast, even faster than the soldiers,” said Kamel Abu Hishesh, a 19-year-old student. He described alm...
By Paul Scharre
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Biden’s New Cold War Against China Could Backfire“The question is: Can China begin to produce the machine tools that it needs to enable domestic fabrication?” said the economic historian Chris Miller, author of Chip War: The...
By Paul Scharre
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Ukraine has destroyed nearly 10% of Russia's tanks, making experts ask: Are tanks over?This vanguard role, held then by foot soldiers and now by tanks, will likely shift to drones, robotic vehicles, and long-range strike systems. "Tanks are going to move, over ...
By Paul Scharre
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Show, don’t tell: Navy changes strategy to sell unmanned systems to skeptical Congress
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Public discussions between the Navy and Congress over unmanned technology in recent years have been circular: The service asks for funding to develop new technology, hesitant ...
By Paul Scharre
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Russia’s Attack Shows Drones Are High on Hit Lists – And Often Under the Radar
Experts are calling for higher awareness of the operations of drones in low-altitude airspace as the autonomous weapons become increasingly active, especially during conflicts...
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