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CNAS report examines impact of heavy gear load on soldiers
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The ground troops of the U.S. armed forces are carrying more and more gear. A review by the Center for a New American Security says that soldiers in recent wars have carried 9...
By Paul Scharre
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Sounding an AI alarm in Congress over China
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The Trump administration has done little to support artificial intelligence research, experts say. Now, the top members of a House subcommittee are calling for a plan to maint...
By Paul Scharre
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Why AI researchers shouldn’t turn their backs on the military
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More than 2,400 AI researchers recently signed a pledge promising not to build so-called autonomous weapons—systems that would decide on their own whom to kill. This follows G...
By Paul Scharre
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The General Is a Robot: Artificial Intelligence Goes to War
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N THE 1970 science fiction film “Colossus: The Forbin Project,” the United States decides to turn over control of its strategic arsenal to Colossus, a massive supercomputer. B...
By Paul Scharre
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Book review: ‘Army of None: Autonomous weapons and the future of war’
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Paul Scharre’s new book on autonomous weapons begins with an account of an incident he experienced while on patrol as a US Army Ranger in Afghanistan in 2004. A young girl of...
By Paul Scharre
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Leading AI researchers vow to not develop autonomous weapons
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In a letter published online, 2,400 researchers in 36 countries joined 160 organizations in calling for a global ban on lethal autonomous weapons. Such systems pose a grave th...
By Paul Scharre
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Report: The U.S. is unprepared for the AI future
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Advances in artificial intelligence are supercharging propaganda, espionage, and cybercrime, threatening "the end of truth," says a new report from the Center for a New Americ...
By Paul Scharre
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In Army of None, a field guide to the coming world of autonomous warfare
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The Silicon Valley-military industrial complex is increasingly in the crosshairs of artificial intelligence engineers. A few weeks ago, Google was reported to be backing out ...
By Paul Scharre
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Injured in Training or Injured in Combat? It Makes a Big Difference in Vets’ Access to Care
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Parker Dial was a 21-year-old Marine on his way to Iraq in 2007 when his unit stopped in Kuwait for final training before going into combat. That training included a variety o...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future
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One of the most interesting books on military affairs that I have read in some time is ARMY OF NONE: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War (Norton, $27.95). Its author, Pau...
By Paul Scharre
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Which Countries Will Win the Global AI Race?
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The announcement earlier in May from the White House was blunt: The federal government is creating a committee of academics and private industry experts to explore the untappe...
By Paul Scharre
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The U.S. Army Is Turning to Robot Soldiers
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From the spears hurled by Romans to the missiles launched by fighter pilots, the weapons humans use to kill each other have always been subject to improvement. Militaries seek...
By Paul Scharre
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Army 'Leans In' To Protect A Shooter's Brain From Blast Injury
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For the first time, the U.S. military is speaking publicly about what it's doing to address potential health risks to troops who operate certain powerful shoulder-mounted weap...
By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre
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New Study Says Shoulder-Fired Weapons Are Hazardous for the Brain
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Service members risk brain damage when operating shoulder-fired heavy weapons like the AT4, LAW, and Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle, according to a new report by the Center for ...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Winter Isn't Coming, but Hal's Grandkids Are
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The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has known some historical ups and downs. Breakthroughs and false hopes came in cycles, along with peaks and valleys of interest and f...
By Paul Scharre
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Weapons Training Likely Causes Brain Injury in Troops, Study Says
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Thousands of U.S. troops are likely suffering traumatic brain injury not just from battlefield explosions but from repeated exposure to trauma while training on their own weap...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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What Happens When Your Bomb-Defusing Robot Becomes a Weapon
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Micah Xavier Johnson spent the last day of his life in a standoff, holed up in a Dallas community-college building. By that point, he had already shot 16 people. Negotiators w...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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When weapons can think for themselves
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ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) is on the march, for good and ill. The AI that makes possible self-driving cars and diagnoses diseases more accurately than doctors will save live...
By Paul Scharre
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Why are Militants Using Drones? UAV Weapons have Spread Far Beyond Nation States
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The first airstrike ever launched from an unmanned drone was a failure. On October 7, 2001—the first night of the war in Afghanistan—a CIA Predator drone buzzed above a compou...
By Paul Scharre
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A sober treatise on the future of warfare warns of the perils of autonomous robotic combatants
Sooner than you may think, robotic swarms will intercept incoming missiles at hypersonic speed, while dueling cyberattacks and countermeasures transpire at nearly the speed of...
By Paul Scharre
