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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
As China Marches Forward on A.I., the White House Is SilentSAN FRANCISCO — In July, China unveiled a plan to become the world leader in artificial intelligence and create an industry worth $150 billion to its economy by 2030. To techn...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
The Co-Inventor of BlackBerry Is Building Canada’s Quantum Brain TrustAfter years of watching his brand wither during the iPhone era, Lazaridis stepped down as the company’s co-chief executive officer in 2012 and devoted most of his energy to re...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China’s massive investment in artificial intelligence has an insidious downsideBEIJING—In a gleaming high-rise here in northern Beijing's Haidian district, two hardware jocks in their 20s are testing new computer chips that might someday make smartphones...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
The Co-Inventor of BlackBerry Is Building Canada’s Quantum Brain TrustIt’s early days for quantum computers, the still mostly theoretical subatomic processors so powerful they can make our fastest supercomputer look like an abacus. Mike Lazaridi...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Military Not Ready for the Next Larger War, Experts SayWhile the U.S. military is ready for another Iraq War or Syria-like intervention, it is unprepared to fight a war against bigger challengers such as China or Russia, national ...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
No Easy Fix for Big Data’s Threat to National SecuritySilicon Valley’s relentless quest to collect and collate every shred of consumer data hit a snag last week following the revelation that a global exercise heatmap, published o...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
China’s Fourth Industrial Revolution: Artificial IntelligenceBottom Line: China’s nationwide pursuit to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) is an attempt to not only match U.S. economic power, but to bypass it geo-st...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Military Not Ready for the Next Larger War, Experts SayWhile the U.S. military is ready for another Iraq War or Syria-like intervention, it is unprepared to fight a war against bigger challengers such as China or Russia, national ...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Selva: FY19 budget sees ‘increasing’ investments in AI, machine teamingWASHINGTON — Gen. Paul Selva, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the Pentagon plans on “increasing” investments in artificial intelligence and man-machine te...
By Robert O. Work
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China’s AI dreamsLast year, China’s chief governing body announced an ambitious scheme for the country to become a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) technology by 2030. The Chinese ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Paul Scharre on NPR: How Tech, Fitness Trackers Affect The MilitaryNPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Paul Scharre about the discovery that fitness trackers such as Fitbit are revealing "heat maps" of where U.S. military personnel are running. Sch...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Congress Must Protect Tech From DoD Bureaucracy, And Itself: ExpertsUPDATED w/ Mahnken interview CAPITOL HILL: The US military is not ready for war against Russia or China, leading experts told the House Armed Services Committeethis morning. H...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
The Strava Heat Map and the End of SecretsA MODERN EQUIVALENT of the World War II era warning that “loose lips sink ships” may be “FFS don’t share your Fitbit data on duty.” Over the weekend, researchers and journalis...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Autonomous weapons are a game-changerAI-empowered robots pose entirely new dangers, possibly of an existential kind...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Getting to grips with military roboticsPETER SINGER, AN expert on future warfare at the New America think-tank, is in no doubt. “What we have is a series of technologies that change the game. They’re not science fi...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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Technology & National Security
Bob Work has an idea to improve artificial intelligenceFormer Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, the architect behind the Department of Defense’s Third Offset strategy, predicted the Pentagon could soon establish an Artificial ...
By Robert O. Work
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Technology & National Security
Raisina 2018 | Conflicts, Rights and the Machine: Addressing the Evolving Methods of WarfareelWith global military spending on the rise, we may now be on the cusp of a series of new technological innovations that will fundamentally influence the way we conduct warfare....
By Elsa B. Kania
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Press Note
Technology & National Security
Australian Strategic Policy Institute's International Cyber Policy Centre to host CNAS adjunct fellow Elsa Kania as a 2018 Fulbright SpecialistThe CNAS Technology and National Security Program is pleased to announce that adjunct fellow Elsa Kania has been selected by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI)...
By Paul Scharre & Elsa B. Kania
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Press Note
Technology & National Security
CNAS Adjunct Senior Fellow Dr. Melissa Flagg to Serve as the new lead for Army Research Lab - NortheastThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) congratulates Dr. Melissa Flagg, former Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Technology and National Security Program, on her return to...
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Technology & National Security
Russia says it killed rebels behind swarm drone attack in Syria, but experts see more such strikes aheadRussia's defense ministry said Friday it tracked down and killed the group of militants responsible for a recent coordinated drone attack against one of its bases in Syria. Ex...
By Paul Scharre
