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In Army of None, a field guide to the coming world of autonomous warfareThe Silicon Valley-military industrial complex is increasingly in the crosshairs of artificial intelligence engineers. A few weeks ago, Google was reported to be backing out ...
By Paul Scharre
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Injured in Training or Injured in Combat? It Makes a Big Difference in Vets’ Access to CareParker Dial was a 21-year-old Marine on his way to Iraq in 2007 when his unit stopped in Kuwait for final training before going into combat. That training included a variety o...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Pentagon Will Expand AI Project Prompting Protests at GoogleAt Google's Campus in Mountain View, California, executives are trying to assuage thousands of employees protesting a contract with the Pentagon’s flagship artificial-intellig...
By Robert O. Work
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Fighting Wars Past, Present and FutureOne of the most interesting books on military affairs that I have read in some time is ARMY OF NONE: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War (Norton, $27.95). Its author, Pau...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Which Countries Will Win the Global AI Race?The announcement earlier in May from the White House was blunt: The federal government is creating a committee of academics and private industry experts to explore the untappe...
By Paul Scharre
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The U.S. Army Is Turning to Robot SoldiersFrom the spears hurled by Romans to the missiles launched by fighter pilots, the weapons humans use to kill each other have always been subject to improvement. Militaries seek...
By Paul Scharre
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New Study Says Shoulder-Fired Weapons Are Hazardous for the BrainService members risk brain damage when operating shoulder-fired heavy weapons like the AT4, LAW, and Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle, according to a new report by the Center for ...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Winter Isn't Coming, but Hal's Grandkids AreThe field of artificial intelligence (AI) has known some historical ups and downs. Breakthroughs and false hopes came in cycles, along with peaks and valleys of interest and f...
By Paul Scharre
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Federal 'turf war' complicates cybersecurity effortsLawmakers are concerned that bureaucratic turf wars are complicating the federal response to cyber threats. The issue took center stage this week, as senators on the Homeland ...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Weapons Training Likely Causes Brain Injury in Troops, Study SaysThousands of U.S. troops are likely suffering traumatic brain injury not just from battlefield explosions but from repeated exposure to trauma while training on their own weap...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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What Happens When Your Bomb-Defusing Robot Becomes a WeaponMicah Xavier Johnson spent the last day of his life in a standoff, holed up in a Dallas community-college building. By that point, he had already shot 16 people. Negotiators w...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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When weapons can think for themselvesARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) is on the march, for good and ill. The AI that makes possible self-driving cars and diagnoses diseases more accurately than doctors will save live...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Why are Militants Using Drones? UAV Weapons have Spread Far Beyond Nation StatesThe first airstrike ever launched from an unmanned drone was a failure. On October 7, 2001—the first night of the war in Afghanistan—a CIA Predator drone buzzed above a compou...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
A sober treatise on the future of warfare warns of the perils of autonomous robotic combatantsSooner than you may think, robotic swarms will intercept incoming missiles at hypersonic speed, while dueling cyberattacks and countermeasures transpire at nearly the speed of...
By Paul Scharre
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Book Review: "Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War"Scharre, a former U.S. Army Ranger, has thought more than most about the implications of autonomous weapons. He has spent time not only among their designers and operators but...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Why Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Work With the PentagonIs Silicon Valley going to war? In 2013, Amazon beat IBM for a contract to host the United States intelligence community’s data cloud. Microsoft now markets Azure Government S...
By Robert O. Work & Elsa B. Kania
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Modernizing Army modernizationThe Army is at 'an inflection point,' and modernizing is job No. 1 and priority No. 1. But modernization will take every ounce of leaders' will and a massive culture change to...
By Paul Scharre
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Military Set for Cyber Attacks on Foreign InfrastructureAmerican military cyber warriors are ready to shut critical infrastructures in China and Russia during a future conflict by conducting cyber intrusions into their networks, ac...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Command and control: A fight for the future of government hackingFollowing years of effort and billions of dollars’ worth of research and planning, the nation finally has a fully operational force of cyberwarriors at U.S. Cyber Command. Yet...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Technology & National Security
'Very urgent': Activists want global treaty to ban killer robots by 2019Pitted against the glacial pace of the UN's discussion process, activists hoping for an international ban on killer robots have repeatedly been left fuming and frustrated. Pit...
By Paul Scharre
