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How swarming drones will change warfare
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In February, the defence secretary said "swarm squadrons" will be deployed by the British armed forces in the coming years. The US has also been testing interconnected, co-ope...
By Paul Scharre
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Here’s the Key Innovation in DARPA AI Project: Ethics From the Start
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A new effort to build patrol drones for urban fights began by forming an ethics advisory board. A DARPA program seeks AI-infused drones that can help prevent friendly fire and...
By Paul Scharre
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Should We Ban ‘Killer Robots’? Can We?
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We now live in a world where a Campaign To Stop Killer Robots is a deadly serious thing, officially endorsed by 26 national governments. (28, if you count Palestine and the Va...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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Genocide Swarms & Assassin Drones: The Case For Banning Lethal AI
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70-ton robotic battle tanks? Scary. Three grams of explosive on a mini-drone that knows your face? Also scary. Thousands of such drones? Millions? That’s potentially a strateg...
By Paul Scharre
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Fear & Loathing In AI: How The Army Triggered Fears Of Killer Robots
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The Army rolled out its ATLAS targeting AI so clumsily that it blindsided the Pentagon’s own Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and inspired headlines about “AI-powered kill...
By Paul Scharre
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US Army Developing AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons
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A new initiative by the US Army suggests “another significant step towards lethal autonomous weapons,” warns a leading artificial-intelligence researcher who has called for a ...
By Paul Scharre
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From Space Force to AI, a $750 Billion Defense Puzzle Awaits
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The Pentagon’s next budget request is likely to be a hotbed of pivotal issues that will mire Congress in divisive debates and lobbying wars. Lawmakers will have to consider a...
By Paul Scharre
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Editorial: Congress should approve the rightsized Space Force concept
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Keeping the Space Force within the Air Force, as directed by President Donald Trump this week, serves the national interest. There was no reason to create an entirely new and ...
By Paul Scharre
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A key U.S. ally is close to adding swarming attack drones to its military arsenal
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Swarms of small attack drones that confuse and overwhelm anti-aircraft defenses could soon become an important part of the modern military arsenal, Britain’s defense secretary...
By Paul Scharre
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Which Country Owns Data? Increasingly, It's China
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To understand how rapidly the global datasphere – the amount of data around the world that is created, captured, and replicated online – is growing, consider one word: zettaby...
By Paul Scharre
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Algorithmic Warfare: AI Project to Link Military, Silicon Valley
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It was almost a year ago when Google employees made waves from Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C., by signing a letter objecting to the company’s work with the Defense Departm...
By Paul Scharre
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CMU, U.S. Army Partner To Create AI For Future Wars
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On Friday, the U.S. Army activated its new Artificial Intelligence Task Force, which will have a hub at Carnegie Mellon University and develop military uses for artificial int...
By Paul Scharre
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Misinformation woes could multiply with 'deepfake' videos
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If you see a video of a politician speaking words he never would utter, or a Hollywood star improbably appearing in a cheap adult movie, don't adjust your television set -- yo...
By Paul Scharre
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Can the Pentagon build a bridge to the tech community?
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As the age of artificial intelligence transforms warfare, the Pentagon faces a delicate problem: How does it convince employees of high-tech companies based in the United Stat...
By Paul Scharre
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Autonomous weapons and the new laws of war
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The Harop, a kamikaze drone, bolts from its launcher like a horse out of the gates. But it is not built for speed, nor for a jockey. Instead it just loiters, unsupervised, too...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz
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Project Maven Overseer Will Lead Pentagon’s New AI Center
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Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, who oversaw the Pentagon’s controversial Project Maven artificial intelligence project, will lead its new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, or JAIC...
By Paul Scharre
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Forget The Terminator: Robotics For Logistics 1st, Combat 2nd
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Despite heated talk of killer robots and powered armor, the unsexy truth is that artificial intelligence, robotics, and exoskeletons will be hauling ammo and helping mechanics...
By Paul Scharre
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Pentagon looks to exoskeletons to build 'super-soldiers'
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The U.S. Army is investing millions of dollars in experimental exoskeleton technology to make soldiers stronger and more resilient, in what experts say is part of a broader pu...
By Paul Scharre
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Will the Geneva Convention Cover Robots?
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When Dr. Richard J. Gatling designed his gun, it was meant to save lives. The American inventor designed the rapid-fire, spring-loaded, hand-cranked weapon with the express pu...
By Paul Scharre
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Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons
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It’s a freezing, snowy day on the border between Estonia and Russia. Soldiers from the two nations are on routine border patrol, each side accompanied by an autonomous weapon ...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
