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Technology & National Security
Don’t fear the robopocalypse: Autonomous weapons expert Paul ScharrescPaul Scharre, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, has pretty good credentials when it comes to autonomous weapons. If you’ve ever heard of Directive 300...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Experts: US lag in tech, national security race against China could worsen under TrumpWASHINGTON — In a sobering reminder of a U.S. lag in the tech-based national security race against China, a panel of experts told a House committee that the country faces an u...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Tighten Monitoring Of Chinese Investments, Experts Tell HASCWASHINGTON: As China forges ahead trying to grab the head of the technology table by throwing money, policy and people at quantum computing and artificial intelligence, the U...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Big Data, AI to Advance Modeling and SimulationMilitary officials and industry experts have long discussed how artificial intelligence can benefit the warfighter. The technology promises to crunch mountains of data into ea...
By Gregory C. Allen
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Elsa Kania on NPR: Chinese Advances In Artificial IntelligenceChina's top search engine Baidu is leading the country's drive to dominate AI. The company says its aims are purely commercial, but China also seeks a strategic and military a...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Chinese Advances In Artificial IntelligenceChina's top search engine Baidu is leading the country's drive to dominate AI. The company says its aims are purely commercial, but China also seeks a strategic and military a...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Press Note
Defense / Technology & National Security
NDAA Press Note: TBI and DoD Study on Blast Pressure ExposureWashington, December 12 – The new National Defense Authorization Act, recently signed into law by the president, requires the Department of Defense to conduct a medical study ...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Technology & National Security
The Cyberlaw Podcast — Interview with Elsa KaniaIn this episode, I interview Elsa Kania, author of a Center for a New American Security report on China’s plan for military uses of artificial intelligence – a plan that seems...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
The next big U.S.-China competition: artificial intelligenceChina is in the midst of an artificial intelligence frenzy, spurred in part by the "Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" Beijing released in July that pro...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
AI can beat humans only one game at a timeDespite all of the potential for artificial intelligence to solve our most vexing problems, it's still in a primitive state, according to a new report by Stanford University. ...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Technology & National Security
Future wars may depend as much on algorithms as on ammunition, report says.The Pentagon is increasingly focused on the notion that the might of U.S. forces will be measured as much by the advancement of their algorithms as by the ammunition in their ...
By Robert O. Work & Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
The Pentagon will arm drones in Niger, boosting the number of U.S. troops thereThe Pentagon gained approval from the Nigerien government to fly armed drones out of Niamey, Niger’s capital, a State Department official said Friday, an effort that will put ...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
US risks losing artificial intelligence arms race to China and RussiaMore than 60 years after a space race rivalry with the Soviet Union ushered in a new era of ballistic missile development, the US is facing another "Sputnik moment" amid a rap...
By Robert O. Work
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Technology & National Security
U.S. Is Losing to Russia and China in War for Artificial Intelligence, Report SaysRussia and China want to revolutionize their forces with weaponized artificial intelligence, a field in which the U.S. risks falling behind, according to a new reportreleased ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
China racing for AI military edge over U.S.: reportWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A research arm of the U.S. intelligence community just wrapped up a competition to see who could develop the best facial recognition technology. The cha...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
World power 'threatened' by Chinese AIThe economic and military balance of world power could be altered as China rushes to develop artificial intelligence technology, a US think tank has warned. The report cites e...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Security firm was front for advanced Chinese hacking operation, Feds sayThree 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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Technology & National Security
How the Pentagon is preparing for the coming drone warsMore 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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Technology & National Security
Legal Limbo Leaves Killer Robots Off-LeashThe 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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Technology & National Security
Industry Developing New Social Media Simulation Tools for Military AnalystsAs 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
