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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
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
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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