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Principles for the Combat Employment of Weapon Systems with Autonomous Functionalities
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Introduction An international debate over lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) has been under way for nearly a decade.1 In 2012, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued for...
By Robert O. Work
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Trust the Process
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The United States is navigating a new paradigm of competition, one that centers not merely on traditional measures of military might, but on technology innovation and its cont...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Ainikki Riikonen
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Myths and Realities of China’s Military-Civil Fusion Strategy
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In U.S. policy debates on China, military-civil fusion (MCF) has emerged as a frequent subject of debate and concern....
By Elsa B. Kania & Lorand Laskai
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Networked: Techno-Democratic Statecraft for Australia and the Quad
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Australia is well positioned to lead the Quad to achieve important technology policy objectives....
By Martijn Rasser
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Taking the Helm
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The United States needs a new approach to regain the initiative. The stakes are high and the window for action is closing....
By Martijn Rasser & Megan Lamberth
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AI and International Stability: Risks and Confidence-Building Measures
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Exploring the potential use of confidence-building measures built around the shared interests that all countries have in preventing inadvertent war....
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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Democracy by Design
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For digital freedom to prevail over authoritarian uses of technology, democracies must offer something better....
By Kara Frederick
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Rethinking Export Controls: Unintended Consequences and the New Technological Landscape
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The U.S. approach to export controls requires change....
By Martijn Rasser
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Defense Technology Strategy
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The DoD needs a systematic approach—a technology strategy—for how to prioritize technology investments....
By Paul Scharre & Ainikki Riikonen
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Digital Entanglement
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China’s push to dominate digital infrastructure leaves liberal democratic countries at a critical juncture....
By Kristine Lee, Martijn Rasser, Joshua Fitt & Coby Goldberg
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Common Code
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The world’s tech-leading democracies should spearhead the creation of a new multilateral architecture for technology policy—a technology alliance....
By Martijn Rasser, Rebecca Arcesati, Shin Oya, Ainikki Riikonen & Monika Bochert
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The Razor’s Edge: Liberalizing the Digital Surveillance Ecosystem
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Democracies must resist the impulses to build permanent digital surveillance infrastructures or risk losing a broader global contest between open societies and repressive regi...
By Kara Frederick
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Open Future
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Executive Summary Communication networks are the central nervous system of the 21st century economy. The fifth generation of wireless—5G—will be essential to and inseparable f...
By Martijn Rasser & Ainikki Riikonen
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Rising to the China Challenge
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The United States and China are locked in strategic competition over the future of the Indo-Pacific—the most populous, dynamic, and consequential region in the world....
By Ely Ratner, Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Rush Doshi, Chris Dougherty, Richard Fontaine, Peter Harrell, Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Eric Sayers, Daleep Singh, Paul Scharre, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya, Ashley Feng, Joshua Fitt, Megan Lamberth, Kristine Lee & Ainikki Riikonen
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The American AI Century: A Blueprint for Action
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Foreword By Robert O. Work We find ourselves in the midst of a technological tsunami that is inexorably reshaping all aspects of our lives. Whether it be in agriculture, finan...
By Martijn Rasser, Megan Lamberth, Ainikki Riikonen, Chelsea Guo, Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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Securing Our 5G Future
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Elsa B. Kania examines Washington and Beijing’s approaches to 5G development and proposes an American strategy for 5G security....
By Elsa B. Kania
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The New War of Ideas
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A new battlespace emerged in the post-9/11 counterterrorism era, encompassing the halls of U.S. technology companies and the alleys of Raqqa alike....
By Kara Frederick
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Understanding China's AI Strategy
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Introduction In the second half of 2018, I traveled to China on four separate trips to attend major diplomatic, military, and private-sector conferences focusing on Artificial...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Super Soldiers: Summary of Findings and Recommendations
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This report, the seventh and last in the Super Soldier series, covers findings of the Center for a New American Security’s study on dismounted soldier survivability. This repo...
By Paul Scharre, Lauren Fish, Katherine Kidder & Amy Schafer
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Human Performance Enhancement
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Executive Summary No attributes are more foundational to success in combat than the physical and cognitive performance of warfighters. Technological advantage has always playe...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
