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Will Silicon Valley Have to Choose Between End-to-End Crypto and Shutting Down Speech it Hates?
Podcast
Our guests this week are Paul Scharre from the Center for a New American Security and Greg Allen from the Defense Department’s newly formed Joint Artificial Intelligence Cente...
By Paul Scharre
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Podcast
War has been a driver of breakthrough technology for a long time. The first waves of artificial intelligence and even the internet came out of DARPA, a defense agency whose or...
By Paul Scharre, Richard Danzig, Arati Prabhakar & Jonathan Wilson
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Digital Freedom and Repression
Video
Paul Scharre and Kara Frederick discussed how we can win the digital contest with authoritarian governments....
By Paul Scharre & Kara Frederick
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CNAS Tech: Discussing a Long-Awaited Executive Order on 5G Security
Podcast
On May 15, President Trump issued an executive order designed to protect the United States from security vulnerabilities in the global communications technology supply chain. ...
By Paul Scharre, Elsa B. Kania & Megan Lamberth
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2019 Drell Lecture: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Video
On April 30, 2019, CNAS Technology and National Security Program Director Paul Scharre delivered the 2019 Drell Lecture on the campus of Stanford University. Scharre's remarks...
By Paul Scharre
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Paul Scharre Interviewed on the Raw Data Podcast
Podcast
When we think of killer robots, images of the Terminator, Robocop, and other dystopian movies often spring to mind. These movies usually don’t end well (for the humans, at lea...
By Paul Scharre
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Killer Apps
Commentary
The nation that leads in the development of artificial intelligence will, Russian President Vladimir Putin proclaimed in 2017, “become the ruler of the world.” That view has b...
By Paul Scharre
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Artificial Intelligence Colloquium: AI R&D Ethics
Video
The responsible advancement and application of AI is a subject of much debate across research, government, defense, and commercial communities. Issues surrounding trust, priva...
By Richard Danzig, Paul Scharre, Patrick Lin & Heather Roff
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Podcast: The Autocrat’s New Tool Kit
A new set of technological tools—some of them now maturing, others poised to emerge over the coming decade—seem destined to wind up in the hands of autocrats around the world....
By Richard Fontaine, Kara Frederick & Paul Scharre
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CNAS Tech: How (Not) to Talk About AI & Lethality
Podcast
The U.S. Army recently announced its new Advanced Targeting & Lethality Automated System, or ATLAS program. The announcement generated concern and media headlines about the le...
By Paul Scharre, Kara Frederick & Megan Lamberth
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The White House: Accelerating America's Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
Podcast
On Thursday, February 28, Michael Kratsios, Deputy Assistant to the President for Technology Policy, visited CNAS to discuss the President's Executive Order on Maintaining Ame...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Kratsios
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White House AI Executive Order and DoD AI Strategy
Commentary
This week, the U.S. government released two major new strategic documents on artificial intelligence. The White House published an executive order by President Trump launching...
By Robert O. Work, Paul Scharre, Gregory C. Allen, Kara Frederick, Michael Horowitz & Elsa B. Kania
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How Congress can help ensure US leadership in artificial intelligence
Commentary
The age of artificial intelligence is upon us. AI is no longer a future technology but a present one. The AI revolution is highly global, with nations such as China playing a ...
By Paul Scharre & Ainikki Riikonen
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Quantum Hegemony
Podcast
China is positioning itself as a powerhouse in quantum science, posing a challenge to U.S. national security and innovation leadership. Elsa B. Kania, an Adjunct Fellow at CNA...
By Elsa B. Kania, John Costello & Paul Scharre
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Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Podcast
What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Or when a weapon that can hunt its own targets is hacked? Although it sounds like science fiction, the...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Paul Scharre
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Congress Can Help the United States Lead in Artificial Intelligence
Commentary
This week the U.S. Congress will hold hearings focusing on the Defense Department’s progress on artificial intelligence, a critical technology area. On the agenda is the new N...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz
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CNAS’ Scharre, Lockheed’s Maxwell on Onyx Exoskeleton and Super Soldiers
Video
Paul Scharre, director of the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Security, and Keith Maxwell, the project manager of Lockheed Martin’s O...
By Paul Scharre & Keith Maxwell
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Ep. 27: CENTCOM's Gen. Votel; Exosuits and super soldiers; Weaponizing social media and more
Podcast
This week on the program: • During a flight over Turkmenistan this week, America’s top commander in the Middle East spoke by phone with Defense One Executive Editor Kevin Baro...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Paul Scharre on Here & There Podcast
Paul Scharre joins Dave Marash on the Here & There podcast to discuss new technological developments in warfare, from artificial intelligence and autonomous systems to the rol...
By Paul Scharre
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The US Military Must Lighten Warfighters’ Loads
Commentary
In World War II, being an infantryman was the third-deadliest job in the American military, behind bombardiers and submariners. In the years since, technology has woven a cloa...
By Paul Scharre
