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Defense / Technology & National Security
Artificial Stupidity: Fumbling The Handoff From AI To Human ControlScience fiction taught us to fear smart machines we can’t control. But reality should teach us to fear smart machines that need us to take control when we’re not ready. From P...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Fact Check: Why did the NSA breach privacy protections?National Security Agency analysts under the Obama administration improperly searched Americans' information, but the searches were conducted largely out of error, according to...
By Adam Klein
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Defense / Technology & National Security
What will the future of warfare look like?War. War never changes. From ancient Rome to the Second World War, it seems like it’s the same story being repeated. The tools of war might change, but war itself is always th...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Ransomware attack is why we can't have security backdoors, say privacy advocatesPrivacy experts are calling the global ransomware attack that hit 150 countries a prime example of why requiring tech companies to create backdoors into computer programs is a...
By Adam Klein
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Technology & National Security
Will Comey's encryption legacy at FBI go dark?President Donald Trump's sudden firing of FBI Director James Comey has touched off a political tempest in Washington, but in the eye of the storm are questions about how Comey...
By Adam Klein
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Technology & National Security
The European Union Just Squeaked ByOn this week’s first episode of The E.R., David Rothkopf, Rosa Brooks, Ed Luce, and Julie Smith discuss the French election results, what it means for the rest ...
By Julianne Smith
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Disposable Drones Could Deliver Supplies Under Enemy FireGliders offer many advantages on the battlefield, not the least of which are low cost and silent operation—two things the military loves. That explains their prevalence during...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
How to Manage a SwarmOur interview for the April -- June Critical Thinking with Paul Scharre--he's a Ranger vet who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan who is now a robotics expert at the Center for...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Army tests drone-killing lasers as threat grows on the battlefieldAs Islamic State-piloted commercial drones complicate the offensive in Mosul, sending Iraqi troops scattering as grenades and bomblets rain down, the Army has field tested veh...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Battle intensifies between Trump’s CIA, WikiLeaksThe battle between the CIA and WikiLeaks is intensifying. CIA Director Mike Pompeo used his first major public remarks on Thursday to skewer WikiLeaks as a “non-state hostile ...
By Adam Klein
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Technology & National Security
Susan Rice, Michael Flynn, and the politics of surveillanceRep. Trey Gowdy (R) of South Carolina leaned forward and addressed FBI director James Comey in a pointed manner. The congressman – a booster of the military, a former prosecut...
By Adam Klein
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Technology & National Security
A more connected military means new battlefield glitches, tooThe US Army is embarking on a potentially decade-long quest to prepare soldiers to operate in the Digital Age. In a $52 million initiative to create what it's calling the Inte...
By Richard Danzig
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
North Korea suspected of $81M cyberheistDavid Asher, adjunct senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific Security Program, joins CNN's Situation Room to discuss the investigation into North Korea's role in an $81 million cybe...
By David Asher
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Trump’s Military Buildup Promises Little For The Working GruntsThe USS Gerald R. Ford, the new aircraft carrier President Donald Trump praised recently, is costing some $13 billion to build. That doesn’t count the airplanes. It’s the most...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Spy powers at risk amid Trump controversyCongress was already facing a contentious debate over reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act before the end of the year. Now, the growing contr...
By Adam Klein
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Technology & National Security
SES modernization plan should include risks, on and off ramps, roles for millennialsWould you nominate Edward Snowden as Employee of the Month? The answer might be yes if you’re part of the future federal workforce, and that’s something current senior executi...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Technology & National Security
The Coming Battle Over SurveillanceAs mystery continues to swirl around the February resignation of General Mike Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, an already-contentious government progr...
By Adam Klein
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Technology & National Security
Trump's Wiretap Claims Are Bogus. But He's Still Onto Something.The current scandal surrounding President Donald Trump's tweeted accusations that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower is proof of what might be called the Salena Zito rule....
By Adam Klein
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Defense / Technology & National Security
How Intelligent Drones Are Shaping the Future of WarfareThe drones fell out of the sky over China Lake, California, like a colony of bats fleeing a cave in the night. Over 100 of them dropped from the bellies of three Boeing F/A-18...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Keeping America Safe: Is Trump's Military Budget Enough?On the campaign trail and now as commander in chief, President Donald Trump has pledged to boost America's depleted armed forces. During his recent address to Congress, he ann...
By Alexandra Sander
