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Technology & National Security
Huawei CFO’s bail was set at $7.5 million and she will pay for her own surveillanceHuawei’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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Technology & National Security
U.S. intelligence sounds the alarm on the quantum gap with ChinaFor 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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Technology & National Security
Forget The Terminator: Robotics For Logistics 1st, Combat 2ndDespite 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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Technology & National Security
The Days of Secret Military Operations May Soon Be Over. Does That Matter?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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Technology & National Security
Pentagon looks to exoskeletons to build 'super-soldiers'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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Technology & National Security
Will the Geneva Convention Cover Robots?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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Technology & National Security
To maintain tech edge, US seeks export controls on AIIn 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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Technology & National Security
Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous WeaponsIt’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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Defense / Technology & National Security
To understand autonomous weapons, think about electronic warfareRemotely 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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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China's 'Civil-Military Fusion' Has Washington WorriedThe 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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Technology & National Security
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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Technology & National Security
China’s Beating the U.S. to Market on Combat Drones, By Copying U.S. TechnologyThe 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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Technology & National Security
Engineering Supersoldiers: Boost in Lethality May Come From WithinWhen 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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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting ElectionsThe 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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Technology & National Security
The Next Tech Talent Shortage: Quantum Computing ResearchersChristopher 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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Technology & National Security
China’s grip on electronics manufacturing will be hard to breakThe 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
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National Security Human Capital Program / Technology & National Security
AI experts tell MEPs ban on 'killer robots' is unrealisticA panel of defence and artificial intelligence (AI) experts on Wednesday (10 October) poured cold water on the feasibility of an international a ban on autonomous weapons syst...
By Wendy R. Anderson
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Defense Intel Chief Worried About Chinese ‘Integration of Human and Machines’The future of human performance is a research race, and the U.S. shouldn’t take its lead for granted, the DIA director says. The U.S. military’s top intelligence officer is in...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Made in China 2025: Xi Jinping's plan to turn China into the AI world leaderEleven trillion renminbi: it's a number that's hard to comprehend. In Australian dollars that's about $2.41 trillion — far bigger than Australia's entire economy — and it's th...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
It’s No Longer Just a Trade War Between the U.S. and ChinaThe U.S. confrontation with China that has been ramping up over the past year due to heightened trade tensions, military showdowns, and diplomatic ill will escalated to new le...
By Elsa B. Kania