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Autonomous weapons and the new laws of war
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The Harop, a kamikaze drone, bolts from its launcher like a horse out of the gates. But it is not built for speed, nor for a jockey. Instead it just loiters, unsupervised, too...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz
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A Poker-Playing Robot Goes to Work for the Pentagon
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In 2017, a poker bot called Libratus made headlines when it roundly defeated four top human players at no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em. Now, Libratus’ technology is being adapted to t...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Project Maven Overseer Will Lead Pentagon’s New AI Center
Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, who oversaw the Pentagon’s controversial Project Maven artificial intelligence project, will lead its new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, or JAIC...
By Paul Scharre
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Washington must wake up to the abuse of software that kills
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Dictators are using spyware to persecute dissidents and journalists at an alarming rate, while the foreign firms that sell these tools assure the public that everything is jus...
By Vance Serchuk
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Huawei CFO’s bail was set at $7.5 million and she will pay for her own surveillance
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Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou, arrested in Canada on Dec. 1 at the request of the US on suspicion of violating sanctions on Iran, was granted bail of C$10 million ($7.5 million) i...
By Elsa B. Kania
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U.S. intelligence sounds the alarm on the quantum gap with China
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For years, quantum computing, which leverages the difficult, and, to many, spooky science of quantum mechanics, has been a subject mostly of interest to the technical elite. Y...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Forget The Terminator: Robotics For Logistics 1st, Combat 2nd
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Despite heated talk of killer robots and powered armor, the unsexy truth is that artificial intelligence, robotics, and exoskeletons will be hauling ammo and helping mechanics...
By Paul Scharre
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The Days of Secret Military Operations May Soon Be Over. Does That Matter?
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In the age of social media and increasingly available connectivity, experts say it is becoming more and more challenging for the U.S. military to conduct operations under a cl...
By Kara Frederick
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Pentagon looks to exoskeletons to build 'super-soldiers'
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The U.S. Army is investing millions of dollars in experimental exoskeleton technology to make soldiers stronger and more resilient, in what experts say is part of a broader pu...
By Paul Scharre
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Will the Geneva Convention Cover Robots?
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When Dr. Richard J. Gatling designed his gun, it was meant to save lives. The American inventor designed the rapid-fire, spring-loaded, hand-cranked weapon with the express pu...
By Paul Scharre
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To maintain tech edge, US seeks export controls on AI
In just two words, the phrase “artificial intelligence” captures a deep techno-utopian promise, the notion that through craftsmanship humans can create learning and thinking m...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons
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It’s a freezing, snowy day on the border between Estonia and Russia. Soldiers from the two nations are on routine border patrol, each side accompanied by an autonomous weapon ...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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To understand autonomous weapons, think about electronic warfare
Remotely piloted vehicles are an anomaly of open skies. For as much as the wars of the United States have been defined by drones and drone strikes, those missions are only pos...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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China's 'Civil-Military Fusion' Has Washington Worried
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The two men posing for photographs in a Nanjing conference room could not have more different backgrounds. On one side was Mao Yongqing, head of the 28th Research Institute of...
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China's application of AI should be a Sputnik moment for the U.S. But will it be?
A conference here to gather American business and military experts to discuss the coming revolution in artificial intelligence was a good Election Day measure of the challenge...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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China’s Beating the U.S. to Market on Combat Drones, By Copying U.S. Technology
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The mockup of China's CH-7 combat drone unveiled at Zhuhai Airshow this week looks a lot like one the U.S. Navy was developing — until it dropped the project, allowing China t...
By Paul Scharre, Michael Horowitz & Elsa B. Kania
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Engineering Supersoldiers: Boost in Lethality May Come From Within
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When Sgt. 1st Class Victor Medina received groundbreaking therapy in 2012 involving virtual reality and computer-generated puzzles to help recover from a brain injury sustaine...
By Andrew Herr & Elsa B. Kania
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U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections
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The United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation to interfere in elections, telling them that Amer...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The Next Tech Talent Shortage: Quantum Computing Researchers
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Christopher Savoie, founder and chief executive of a start-up called Zapata, offered jobs this year to three scientists who specialize in an increasingly important technology ...
By Paul Scharre
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China’s grip on electronics manufacturing will be hard to break
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The first floor is all about components: every type of switch, every cable and every screw can be found here, often in bags of thousands. The second floor is filled with circu...
By Gregory C. Allen
