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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
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To understand autonomous weapons, think about electronic warfare
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Remotely piloted vehicles are an anomaly of open skies. For as much as the wars of the United States have been defined by drones and drone strikes, those missions are only pos...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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China's application of AI should be a Sputnik moment for the U.S. But will it be?
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A conference here to gather American business and military experts to discuss the coming revolution in artificial intelligence was a good Election Day measure of the challenge...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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China’s Beating the U.S. to Market on Combat Drones, By Copying U.S. Technology
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The mockup of China's CH-7 combat drone unveiled at Zhuhai Airshow this week looks a lot like one the U.S. Navy was developing — until it dropped the project, allowing China t...
By Paul Scharre, Michael Horowitz & Elsa B. Kania
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The Next Tech Talent Shortage: Quantum Computing Researchers
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Christopher Savoie, founder and chief executive of a start-up called Zapata, offered jobs this year to three scientists who specialize in an increasingly important technology ...
By Paul Scharre
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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
