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Technology & National Security
ChatNC3: Can the U.S. Trust AI in Nuclear Command, Control and Communications?As the US military experiments with AI for everything from streamlining contract documents to coordinating global operations, there’s one area that’s remained off-limits: nucl...
By Paul Scharre
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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
How Israel Uses AI in Gaza—And What It Might Mean for the Future of WarfareAI warfare may conjure images of killer robots and autonomous drones, but a different reality is unfolding in the Gaza Strip...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Generating an EdgeEmerging capabilities such as AI and machine learning are transforming strategic cooperation, competition and conflict throughout the Indo-Pacific and beyond, military command...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Security Robots Are Starting to Join the Ranks of Human Guards. Here’s What We KnowThe robots’ ability to serve as a physical deterrent can help defuse situations that may escalate if a police officer were present instead, according to Paul Scharre, executiv...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Top US and Chinese officials begin talks on AI in Geneva“It’s vitally important that the United States and China begin frank discussions about how to improve AI safety,” said Paul Scharre, an AI expert at the Center for New America...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Iranian and Chinese Drones Are Overwhelming American Warships—But This High-Tech Weapon Could Help Them Fight BackOn 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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Technology & National Security
U.S.-China Competition to Field Military Drone Swarms Could Fuel Global Arms RaceThe 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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Technology & National Security
Why the Pentagon Wants to Build Thousands of Easily Replaceable, AI-Enabled DronesFielding 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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Technology & National Security
Pentagon Explores Military Uses of Large Language ModelsPaul 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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Technology & National Security
The Year Policymakers Woke Up to AIAlthough 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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Technology & National Security
Pentagon Cloud Tie-Up with Silicon Valley Off to a Slow StartThe 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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Technology & National Security
Pentagon Plans a Drone Army to Counter China’s Market DominanceThe 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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Technology & National Security
U.S. Troops Still Train on Weapons With Known Risk of Brain InjuryDespite 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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Technology & National Security
From Land Mines to Drones, Tech Has Driven Fears About Autonomous ArmsThe 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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Technology & National Security
Keeping Up with the Drones-esParticularly 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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Technology & National Security
The U.S. and 30 Other Nations Agree to Set Guardrails for Military AIChatGPT 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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Technology & National Security
Governments Used to Lead Innovation. On AI, They’re Falling Behind.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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Technology & National Security
Why Biden’s AI Executive Order Only Goes So FarThe 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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Technology & National Security
What to Know About the U.S. Curbs on AI Chip Exports to ChinaBIS 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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Technology & National Security
The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI“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