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The Artificial Intelligence Software Managing the U.S. War on IranTo strike approximately 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of an attack on Iran, the U.S. military relied on the most advanced artificial intelligence ever deployed on th...
By Paul Scharre
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Anthropic CEO Says Pentagon Ban Less Harsh than Hegseth Had ThreatenedThe official designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” delivered to the company Wednesday, imposed much milder penalties on the AI giant than Defense Secretary Pete H...
By Paul Scharre & Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Anthropic’s AI Tool Claude Central to U.S. Campaign in Iran, amid a Bitter FeudIn order to strike a blistering 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced artificial intelligence it’s ever used...
By Paul Scharre
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Pentagon Leaders Should Have More Control over Services’ Tech Budgets, GAO SuggestsThe Pentagon could further accelerate its technology purchasing if the services’ emerging-tech budget requests flowed through the office of the defense undersecretary for rese...
By Paul Scharre
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The Army Just Unveiled Its Latest Tank. Will It Be the Last?The Detroit Auto Show is the nation’s showcase for cutting-edge vehicles, and this year, along with flashy new Cadillac SUVs and Ford pickups, a model with a lot less chrome m...
By Paul Scharre
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‘A Real Risk’: The Rise of Weapons That Can Act AloneA weapons specialist answers Nature’s questions on the future of technology and conflict....
By Paul Scharre
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U.S. Drone Swarm Plan Spiraling into Oblivion
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The US’s Replicator project, billed as a way to swarm China with “small, smart, cheap” drones, has been grounded by delays, spiraling costs and software chaos, raising questio...
By Paul Scharre
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ChatNC3: Can the U.S. Trust AI in Nuclear Command, Control and Communications?As the US military experiments with AI for everything from streamlining contract documents to coordinating global operations, there’s one area that’s remained off-limits: nucl...
By Paul Scharre
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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
How Israel Uses AI in Gaza—And What It Might Mean for the Future of WarfareAI warfare may conjure images of killer robots and autonomous drones, but a different reality is unfolding in the Gaza Strip...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Generating an EdgeEmerging capabilities such as AI and machine learning are transforming strategic cooperation, competition and conflict throughout the Indo-Pacific and beyond, military command...
By Paul Scharre
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Security Robots Are Starting to Join the Ranks of Human Guards. Here’s What We KnowThe robots’ ability to serve as a physical deterrent can help defuse situations that may escalate if a police officer were present instead, according to Paul Scharre, executiv...
By Paul Scharre
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Top US and Chinese officials begin talks on AI in Geneva“It’s vitally important that the United States and China begin frank discussions about how to improve AI safety,” said Paul Scharre, an AI expert at the Center for New America...
By Paul Scharre
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Iranian and Chinese Drones Are Overwhelming American Warships—But This High-Tech Weapon Could Help Them Fight BackOn March 27, 2024, a U.S. warship in the Red Sea detected four radar tracks headed directly its way from Yemen. It fit the tell-tale pattern of drone attacks that Houthi rebel...
By Paul Scharre
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U.S.-China Competition to Field Military Drone Swarms Could Fuel Global Arms RaceThe unchecked spread of swarm technology “could lead to more instability and conflict around the world,” said Margarita Konaev, an analyst with Georgetown University’s Center ...
By Paul Scharre
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Why the Pentagon Wants to Build Thousands of Easily Replaceable, AI-Enabled DronesFielding fleets of drones at this scale is also likely to speed up the military’s adoption of artificial intelligence. “The only way that thousands of drones work is if you ha...
By Paul Scharre
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Pentagon Explores Military Uses of Large Language ModelsPaul Scharre, a former Defense Department official who is now executive vice president at the Center for a New American Security, said that some of the best uses probably have...
By Paul Scharre
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The Year Policymakers Woke Up to AIAlthough the early focus on AI competition was on the industry itself, the conversation quickly expanded to how the transformative technology will impact geopolitics, which co...
By Paul Scharre
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Pentagon Cloud Tie-Up with Silicon Valley Off to a Slow StartThe Pentagon has struggled for years to make the jump to cloud computing, now the preference of most American businesses. It’s still struggling amid concerns that the cloud is...
By Paul Scharre
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Pentagon Plans a Drone Army to Counter China’s Market DominanceThe Pentagon is aiming to produce “thousands” of drones through Replicator as early as the end of next year. Paul Scharre, executive vice president at the Center for a New Ame...
By Paul Scharre
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U.S. Troops Still Train on Weapons With Known Risk of Brain InjuryDespite the order, though, things have hardly changed on the ground. Training continues largely as it did before. Troops say they see little being done to limit or track blast...
By Paul Scharre
