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China's Social Credit System seeks to assign citizens scores, engineer social behaviourChinese authorities claim they have banned more than 7 million people deemed "untrustworthy" from boarding flights, and nearly 3 million others from riding on high-speed train...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Skeptics Ask: Can Army Field Armed Robots By 2024?Can the Army develop a Robotic Combat Vehicle within six years? Some of the experts we spoke to were deeply skeptical, including veteran congressional staffers badly burned by...
By Paul Scharre
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Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I.SAN FRANCISCO — There is little doubt that the Defense Department needs help from Silicon Valley’s biggest companies as it pursues work on artificial intelligence. The questio...
By Robert O. Work, Gregory C. Allen & Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Launches Artificial Intelligence Task ForceThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce the launch of its Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security, which will examine how the ...
By Paul Scharre, Robert O. Work, Dr. Andrew W. Moore, Amir Husain & Cole Stevens
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In The News
Technology & National Security
The ChallengerNOTHING moves in the 40 black cabinets in the facility outside Shanghai except the water in the cooling system. But the 10m processing units within crunch through numbers at a...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Top Ten Bio Convergence Trends Impacting the Future Operational EnvironmentAs Mad Scientist Laboratory has noted in previous blog posts, War is an intrinsically human endeavor. Rapid innovations in the biological sciences are changing how we work, li...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Mad Scientist 2018: Bio-Convergence and the Changing Character of WarThis Mad Scientist conference, co-sponsored by the U.S. Army TRADOC G-2 and SRI International, brings leading scientists, innovators, and scholars from academia, industry, and...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Genius Machines: The Next Decade of Artificial IntelligenceIn just the last five years, artificial intelligence has evolved from a staple of science fiction to a real-world magnet for large-scale investment, wonder, and hype. Increase...
By Elsa B. Kania & Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
SINET ITSEF 2018The new National Security Strategy has declared that certain nations are strategic competitors. Russia, China, and other groups are using cyber as an extension of competition...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Google is quietly providing AI technology for drone strike targeting projectGOOGLE HAS QUIETLY secured a contract to work on the Defense Department’s new algorithmic warfare initiative, providing assistance with a project to apply its artificial intel...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Technology & National Security
Air Force Retiring Predator, the Drone That Changed the WorldThe Predator, the unmanned aerial vehicle that redefined the U.S. military’s combat tactics while executing thousands of missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other war zones ove...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for DronesGoogle has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firesto...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Technology & National Security
Russia Will Be Back in 2018, Cyber Experts WarnsWith the 2018 midterms on the horizon, America’s electoral system needs to be ready to fend off the kind of online attacks that besieged it during the 2016 election, cybersecu...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
The New Arms Race in AIFour years ago, planners at the Pentagon reviewed estimates of China’s growing military investments with what one called a “palpable sense of alarm.” China, the planners deter...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Stranger Than Science Fiction: The Future for Digital DictatorshipsWhile Americans and Europeans debate whether the internet and social media are undermining democracy, a big question for many Chinese is whether cutting-edge technology streng...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Trump has done nothing to stop Russia from meddling in the 2018 midtermsPresident Donald Trump has barely acknowledged that Russians meddled in the 2016 presidential election, and now it looks like he’s doing nothing to prevent Moscow from interfe...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Seeking to outsmart US, China races ahead on artificial intelligenceWASHINGTON: When a Google computer program beat the world’s best player of an ancient Chinese board game last May, it might have seemed like an incremental milestone. But for ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Why Artificial Intelligence Researchers Should Be More ParanoidLIFE HAS GOTTEN more convenient since 2012, when breakthroughs in machine learning triggered the ongoing frenzy of investment in artificial intelligence. Speech recognition wo...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Good News: A.I. Is Getting Cheaper. That’s Also Bad News.SAN FRANCISCO — A Silicon Valley start-up recently unveiled a drone that can set a course entirely on its own. A handy smartphone app allows the user to tell the airborne dron...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
U.S. alliances need to reflect needs of modern warfare, experts sayWASHINGTON — Since the beginning of U.S. invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. has had the ability to project power in a relatively unchecked fashion. But some military ...
By Paul Scharre
