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China’s grip on electronics manufacturing will be hard to break
In The News
The first floor is all about components: every type of switch, every cable and every screw can be found here, often in bags of thousands. The second floor is filled with circu...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Defense Department pledges billions toward artificial intelligence research
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The military’s research arm said Friday it will invest up to $2 billion over the next five years toward new programs advancing artificial intelligence, stepping up both a tech...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I.
In The News
SAN FRANCISCO — There is little doubt that the Defense Department needs help from Silicon Valley’s biggest companies as it pursues work on artificial intelligence. The questio...
By Robert O. Work, Gregory C. Allen & Paul Scharre
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Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firesto...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Google is quietly providing AI technology for drone strike targeting project
GOOGLE HAS QUIETLY secured a contract to work on the Defense Department’s new algorithmic warfare initiative, providing assistance with a project to apply its artificial intel...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Big Data, AI to Advance Modeling and Simulation
Military 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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AI can beat humans only one game at a time
Despite 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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A Dirty Word In The U.S., 'Automation' Is A Buzzword In China
Gerry Wong graduated from MIT with his bachelor's degree, his master's degree and his Ph.D, but in 2000 he left the United States and went home to China start a telecom equipm...
By Gregory C. Allen
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China, Russia and the U.S. are running neck-and-neck in an AI military arms race.
A new Harvard Kennedy School study concludes AI could revolutionize war as much as nuclear weapons have done. China and Russia have also reached effective technological-milita...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Russia, AI, and the future of war
Russian President Vladimir Putin has rattled Elon Musk and many others since saying of artificial intelligence, "Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the rule...
By Gregory C. Allen
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For Superpowers, Artificial Intelligence Fuels New Global Arms Race
FOR MANY RUSSIAN students, the academic year started last Friday with tips on planetary domination from President Vladimir Putin. “Artificial intelligence is the future, not o...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Artificial Intelligence Is Poised to Revolutionize Warfare
Imagine, for a moment, that the question of war and peace between the United States and North Korea didn’t rest on the erratic personalities of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, b...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Sorry, Banning 'Killer Robots' Just Isn't Practical
LATE SUNDAY, 116 entrepreneurs, including Elon Musk, released a letter to the United Nations warning of the dangerous “Pandora’s Box” presented by weapons that make their own ...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Greg Allen: Artificial intelligence finally coming into its own
Nuclear, aerospace, cyber and bio technology have given the U.S. an enduring advantage in national security. But the edge is going away. Greg Allen, a fellow in the Technolog...
By Gregory C. Allen
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AI Could Revolutionize War as much as Nukes
In 1899, the world’s most powerful nations signed a treaty at The Hague that banned military use of aircraft, fearing the emerging technology’s destructive power. Five years l...
By Gregory C. Allen
