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Iranian and Chinese Drones Are Overwhelming American Warships—But This High-Tech Weapon Could Help Them Fight Back
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On 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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US-China competition to field military drone swarms could fuel global arms race
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The 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 drones
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Fielding 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 models
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Paul 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 AI
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Although 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 start
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The 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 dominance
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The 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 Injury
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Despite 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
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From Land Mines to Drones, Tech Has Driven Fears About Autonomous Arms
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The next step in the progression toward more sophisticated autonomous weapons came in the form of “fire and forget” homing munitions like the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air...
By Paul Scharre
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Keeping up with the drones-es
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Particularly relevant to the future of war was one afternoon panel on R&D spending, where a trio of analysts shed some light on the debates in Washington over exactly how ...
By Paul Scharre
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The US and 30 Other Nations Agree to Set Guardrails for Military AI
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ChatGPT doesn’t appear to have been conscripted into military service yet, but the recent flourishing of chatbot technology seems to have prompted renewed and more serious deb...
By Paul Scharre
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Governments used to lead innovation. On AI, they’re falling behind.
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At the same time, American lawmakers are considering pouring billions of dollars into AI development amid concerns of competition with China. Senate Majority Leader Charles E....
By Paul Scharre
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Why Biden’s AI Executive Order Only Goes So Far
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The Secretary of Commerce has been tasked with defining the AI models that are sufficiently dangerous to qualify for these requirements. As it stands, experts don’t know how t...
By Paul Scharre
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What to Know About the U.S. Curbs on AI Chip Exports to China
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BIS is seeking public comment on a number of questions, suggesting there could be further updates and offering some clues to the strategic direction the Commerce Department un...
By Paul Scharre
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The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI
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“Once that software has been developed, it’s effectively costless for that software to proliferate and be reused elsewhere,” said Paul Scharre, a drone expert at the Center fo...
By Paul Scharre & Samuel Bendett
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AI: How far is China behind the West?
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"The most cutting-edge AI systems require massive amounts of hardware — thousands of very specialized chips, running for weeks or months at a time," Paul Scharre, executive vi...
By Paul Scharre
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The Other Chinese Apps Taking the US and UK by Storm
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This same concern has led the European Commission, the UK and Canada to ban TikTok from the phones of government employees. "How the US and other democratic countries address ...
By Paul Scharre
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America Pausing AI Sparks Concerns About China Making Gains
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While China is a global leader in AI research, its response to OpenAI's new GPT-4 (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer), an even more powerful version of ChatGPT driven by a la...
By Paul Scharre
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Who’s Winning the AI Race? It’s Not That Simple.
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This also isn’t a two-horse race. AI development is picking up pace around the world, and the technology’s underpinning of everything from email to missile systems raises the ...
By Paul Scharre
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The Next World Power Will Be the First to Harness the Power of AI, Former Defense Official Argues in New Book
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In his latest book, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," Scharre explores how the international battle for the most powerful AI technology is cha...
By Paul Scharre
