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Could artificial intelligence save the Pentagon $15 billion a year?
The first time Chinese government officials came to visit Tom Siebel in hopes of convincing him to work on artificial intelligence projects it was 2011. Then delegations of ma...
By Kara Frederick
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How China tried and failed to win the AI race: The inside story
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Chances are you've seen the stories, with headlines like "AI-driven technologies reshape city life in Beijing" or "Robots serving up savory food at Chinese artificial intellig...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Meet the Future Unmanned Force
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Two new autonomous aircraft concepts that promise to redefine the Air Force’s unmanned fleet are moving forward. The latest, Skyborg, is an autonomous drone prototyping progr...
By Paul Scharre
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The Future of AI: Pentagon’s New Center Leading the Way
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Pentagon officials have long said that strides in artificial intelligence technology could revolutionize the future of warfare. With major efforts such as Project Maven — whic...
By Kara Frederick
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AI pilots ‘deceptively easy’ to start, but ‘fiendishly hard’ to scale up
The Office of Management and Budget, as well as current and former Defense Department leadership, have acknowledged that improving data management, enhancing agency IT archite...
By Robert O. Work
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China and the US are locked in a crucial battle for space domination
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Fifty years after the first moon landing, an American triumph that gripped the world, China marked the start of 2019 with its own lunar achievement. Chang’e-4, a Chinese probe...
By Elsa B. Kania
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How swarming drones will change warfare
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In February, the defence secretary said "swarm squadrons" will be deployed by the British armed forces in the coming years. The US has also been testing interconnected, co-ope...
By Paul Scharre
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Here’s the Key Innovation in DARPA AI Project: Ethics From the Start
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A new effort to build patrol drones for urban fights began by forming an ethics advisory board. A DARPA program seeks AI-infused drones that can help prevent friendly fire and...
By Paul Scharre
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China Is Catching Up to the US in AI Research—Fast
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At the world's top computer-vision conference last June, Google and Apple sponsored an academic contest that challenged algorithms to make sense of images from twin cameras co...
By Gregory C. Allen
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‘You’re with China or you’re with us’: Global relations hinge on outcome of trade talks, U.S. analysts say
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Tech giant Huawei has become a proxy for U.S. struggles with Beijing over the Chinese government’s aggressive backing of its private companies, and American experts warn globa...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Should We Ban ‘Killer Robots’? Can We?
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We now live in a world where a Campaign To Stop Killer Robots is a deadly serious thing, officially endorsed by 26 national governments. (28, if you count Palestine and the Va...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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The Army’s ATLAS program isn’t building killer robots (yet)
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Last week, a number of media outlets pounced on the idea the U.S. Army may be trying to turn its gun duties over to artificial intelligence, prompting a flurry of headlines ab...
By Michael Horowitz
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Genocide Swarms & Assassin Drones: The Case For Banning Lethal AI
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70-ton robotic battle tanks? Scary. Three grams of explosive on a mini-drone that knows your face? Also scary. Thousands of such drones? Millions? That’s potentially a strateg...
By Paul Scharre
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Fear & Loathing In AI: How The Army Triggered Fears Of Killer Robots
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The Army rolled out its ATLAS targeting AI so clumsily that it blindsided the Pentagon’s own Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and inspired headlines about “AI-powered kill...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump’s Huawei ban will hit rural US carriers the hardest as replacing equipment will cost ‘millions’
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It took Jim Kail’s telecommunications company LHTC Broadband nearly five years to equip almost 1,000 customers in the rural township of South Canaan, Pennsylvania, with high-s...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China sets up 5G stations in Tibet
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China has established the first set of three 5G stations in the Tibet region bordering India. The purpose, it is said, was to enhance communication to serve the local populati...
By Elsa B. Kania
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In the Middle East, a booming market for spy technology
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As weapons sales to Gulf countries soar, defense companies flocked to last month’s bi-annual International Defense Exhibition in Abu Dhabi. But amid the usual displays of mach...
By Kara Frederick
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US Military Changing ‘Killing Machine’ Robo-tank Program After Controversy
It was a frightening and dramatic headline: “The US Army Wants to Turn Tanks Into AI-Powered Killing Machines.” The story, published this week in Quartz, details the new Advan...
By Michael Horowitz
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US Army Developing AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons
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A new initiative by the US Army suggests “another significant step towards lethal autonomous weapons,” warns a leading artificial-intelligence researcher who has called for a ...
By Paul Scharre
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From Space Force to AI, a $750 Billion Defense Puzzle Awaits
The Pentagon’s next budget request is likely to be a hotbed of pivotal issues that will mire Congress in divisive debates and lobbying wars. Lawmakers will have to consider a...
By Paul Scharre
