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• To understand autonomous weapons, think about electronic warfare

  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...

• Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons

  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 ...

• China’s Beating the U.S. to Market on Combat Drones, By Copying U.S. Technology

  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...

• Pentagon looks to thwart Russian tech attacks in Syria

  The Pentagon’s in-house tech incubator is trying to stop Russia from scrambling US battlefield signals in Syria, federal contract documents show. The Defense Advanced Research...

• China’s grip on electronics manufacturing will be hard to break

  The first floor is all about components: every type of switch, every cable and every screw can be found here, often in bags of thousands. The second floor is filled with circu...

• The Pentagon Used To Hide US Troops In Syria. Now It's Posting Videos Of Them On Twitter.

  This time last year, the US military was refusing to admit that there were four times as many troops in Syria as it had disclosed previously, insisting they were serving as te...

• Loren DeJonge Schulman on Drones

  Defense One Radio talks about drones, the national security bureaucracy, and the American way of war (1:49) with Loren DeJonge Schulman of the Center for a New American Securi...

• Defense Department pledges billions toward artificial intelligence research

  The military’s research arm said Friday it will invest up to $2 billion over the next five years toward new programs advancing artificial intelligence, stepping up both a tech...

• 'Slaughterbots': U.S., Russia lead fight to block 'killer robots' ban

  In Geneva, it’s the big guy versus the little guy. And the big guy has robots on his side. More than two dozen nations are using a key United Nations meeting this week to push...

• Resisting Magical Thinking: Drones and National Security

  In the latest episode of FPRI’s Back Channel, Templeton Fellows Ron Granieri, Dominic Tierney, and Nada Bakos welcome special guest Loren DeJonge Schulman, Deputy Director of ...

• Why AI researchers shouldn’t turn their backs on the military

  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...

• The General Is a Robot: Artificial Intelligence Goes to War

  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...

• Book review: ‘Army of None: Autonomous weapons and the future of war’

  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...

• Leading AI researchers vow to not develop autonomous weapons

  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...

• Artificial intelligence debate flares at Google

  Google’s decision not to renew a controversial artificial intelligence (AI) contract with the Pentagon has reignited a debate about what Silicon Valley’s role should be with r...

• Google to drop Pentagon AI contract after employee objections to the ‘business of war’

  Google will not seek to extend its contract next year with the Defense Department for artificial intelligence used to analyze drone video, squashing a controversial alliance t...

• The U.S. Navy Is Developing Mothership Drones for Coastal Defense

  The U.S. Navy and researchers from Florida Atlantic University are developing robotic boats that can launch aerial and sub drones to protect U.S. coastal waters. “Our focus wi...

• Pentagon Will Expand AI Project Prompting Protests at Google

  At Google's Campus in Mountain View, California, executives are trying to assuage thousands of employees protesting a contract with the Pentagon’s flagship artificial-intellig...

• Analysis of the Trump Administration’s Drone Export Policy

  Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, discusses the Trump Administration’s recent Drone Export Policy and its relat...

• When weapons can think for themselves

  ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) is on the march, for good and ill. The AI that makes possible self-driving cars and diagnoses diseases more accurately than doctors will save live...