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Security firm was front for advanced Chinese hacking operation, Feds say
Three men who worked for an Internet security firm in China have been indicted on federal charges for hacking into at least three multinational corporations. The malware they ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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How the Pentagon is preparing for the coming drone wars
More than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary device...
By Paul Scharre
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Legal Limbo Leaves Killer Robots Off-Leash
The UN’s Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) met last week to discuss lethal autonomous weapons systems. But while most member states ...
By Paul Scharre
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Industry Developing New Social Media Simulation Tools for Military Analysts
As Black Hawk helicopters transported Navy SEALs to Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011, an IT consultant working late into the evening heard the spinn...
By Paul Scharre
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Russia to the United Nations: Don’t Try to Stop Us From Building Killer Robots
Arms control advocates had reason for hope when scores of countries met at the United Nations in Geneva last week to discuss the future of lethal autonomous weapons systems, o...
By Paul Scharre
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China Challenges Nvidia's Hold on Artificial Intelligence Chips
IN JULY, CHINA’S government issued a sweeping new strategy with a striking aim: draw level with the US in artificial intelligence technology within three years, and become the...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Chinese drones may soon swarm the market — and that could be very bad for the US
China showed off some of its latest drone models and projects at this year's Dubai Airshow and it looks like many spectators were interested. China has seen a dramatic increas...
By Paul Scharre
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A Dirty Word In The U.S., 'Automation' Is A Buzzword In China
Gerry Wong graduated from MIT with his bachelor's degree, his master's degree and his Ph.D, but in 2000 he left the United States and went home to China start a telecom equipm...
By Gregory C. Allen
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CNAS Press Note: Governmental Meetings on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
Press Note
Washington, November 14 – This week member states begin discussions at the United Nations on lethal autonomous weapons systems – weapons that would choose their own targets. P...
By Paul Scharre
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The US Shot Down a Mysterious Enemy Drone Over Syria
A US Air Force F-15 jet fighter has shot down a large, armed drone that attacked pro-US forces near At Tanf, a strategic town in southeastern Syria near the border with Iraq. ...
By Paul Scharre
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America in Danger of Losing Lead in AI, Innovation Board Chair Says
Artificial intelligence is the new frontier, and the Defense Department must invest in this breakthrough or be in danger of not being competitive in the future, said Eric Schm...
By Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Summit
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China Will Surpass US in AI Around 2025, Says Google’s Eric Schmidt
In April, as Eric Schmidt watched a computer program defeat China’s top go player in a ground-breaking match in the Chinese city of Wuzhen, the executive chairman of Google’s ...
By Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Summit
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Our Artificial Intelligence ‘Sputnik Moment’ Is Now: Eric Schmidt & Bob Work
When former Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work heard the head of Google’s parent company, Eric Schmidt, say this morning that America needs a national strategy for developing A...
By Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Summit
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Armed Robots: US Lags Rhetoric, Russia
AUSA: American military leaders talk how artificial intelligence will change the face of war, but the unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) actually in development are much more mod...
By Paul Scharre
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UAS are everywhere, and it takes all types of technology to defeat them
The drone buzzed over U.S. ground troops in southern Syria. It was big, about the size of a Predator, and it was armed. Without warning, it fired. The munition “hit dirt,” a P...
By Paul Scharre
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Army Prepares for Complex, Lethal Battlefields of the Future
Tomorrow’s battlefields will be wrought with new adversaries, challenges and technologies, military leaders and experts have said.In a recently released report, “The Operation...
By Paul Scharre
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The Effect of New Technologies on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament: Artificial Intelligence, Hypersonic Technology and Outer Space
As the First Committee of the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly entered its first week, the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, in collabo...
By Paul Scharre
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China, Russia and the U.S. are running neck-and-neck in an AI military arms race.
A new Harvard Kennedy School study concludes AI could revolutionize war as much as nuclear weapons have done. China and Russia have also reached effective technological-milita...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
The weapons of war and terrorism are on the cusp of a revolution that will change the battlefield and the world in ways that we're just coming to understand. That future is ju...
By Paul Scharre
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TANK WARFARE: Russia Builds Platform to Rival the Abrams
The Abrams has for decades been considered the world’s premier tank. However, experts say that the T-14 Armata, a next-generation platform that the Russians are developing, co...
By Paul Scharre
