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China makes the first big 5G move
In The News
China switched on a massive 5G network Friday, bringing 50 cities online in one of the largest-ever single rollouts of the super-fast mobile networks. Why it matters: Right no...
By Paul Scharre
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The U.S.-China trade war is cooling off. But the tech war is heating up.
In The News
President Trump this week seemed to be nearing a preliminary truce in his trade war with China. But the deeper danger that still lies ahead is a Sino-U.S. technology war, as t...
By Robert O. Work
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CNAS and Defense One Partner for Year-Long Editorial Series: "The American Readiness Project"
Press Release
With original reporting, research, and a body of expert commentary, the American Readiness Project will chronicle the nation’s desire, willingness, and capability for the U.S....
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TikTok Responds to US Warnings, Says They’ve Got Nothing to Do With Chinese Government
In The News
TikTok videos have taken over the internet. They’re short, funny, and can instantly go viral. But not everyone is laughing, like United States lawmakers who are concerned that...
By Kara Frederick
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The unanswered questions in America’s AI strategy
Three years since the White House first publicly considered the U.S. government's role as a shepherd of artificial intelligence research, pivotal unanswered questions are stil...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Inside TikTok: A culture clash where U.S. views about censorship often were overridden by the Chinese bosses
In The News
The wildly popular short-video app TikTok has become one of the world’s fastest-growing social media platforms, known for its quirky memes and viral singalongs. But its happy-...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Pentagon advisory board releases principles for ethical use of artificial intelligence in warfare
Hoping to prepare for what many see as a coming revolution in weaponry enabled by artificial intelligence ― and convince a skeptical public that it can apply such innovations ...
By Paul Scharre
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A Tech Group Suggests Limits for the Pentagon’s Use of AI
In The News
The Pentagon says artificial intelligence will help the US military become still more powerful. On Thursday, an advisory group including executives from Google, Microsoft, and...
By Paul Scharre
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As AI joins battlefield, Pentagon seeks ethicist
When the chief of the Pentagon’s new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center briefed reporters recently, he made a point of emphasizing the imminently practical – even potentiall...
By Paul Scharre
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How Commandos Could Quickly Confirm They Got Their Target
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When President Trump announced on Sunday morning that a Special Operations forces raid had resulted in the death of the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, he said two ...
By Kara Frederick
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Artificial Intelligence Moving to Battlefield as Ethics Weighed
The Pentagon, taking the next big step of deploying artificial intelligence to aid troops and help select battlefield targets, must settle lingering ethical concerns about usi...
By Paul Scharre
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Pentagon seeks to triple AI warfare budget to meet China's rise
In The News
The U.S. Defense Department has made battlefield-ready artificial intelligence a priority in its planning, seeking a massive increase in related spending to counter China's ra...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Digital silk road: How China is creating a new global data highway
In The News
China has a massive blueprint for boosting its economic growth, and part of the project is called the “Digital Silk Road.”Not to be confused with the online darknet marketplac...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The military might showed off at China’s 70th anniversary parade moved some Chinese to tears. Here’s why
In The News
The pomp, drama and advanced military technology on display at the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China sent a dramatic, carefully-rehearsed message to the world...
By Elsa B. Kania
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EW, Cyber Require Next-Gen Hardware: Conley
The military is investing heavily in artificial intelligence — but AI alone is not enough. You need hardware that can handle your high-powered algorithms, without taking up so...
By Paul Scharre
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Nearly 100 countries have military drones, and it's changing the way the world prepares for war
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The number of countries with military drones has skyrocketed over the past decade, a new report revealed, showing that nearly 100 countries have this kind of technology incorp...
By Michael Horowitz
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U.S. Looks to Boost Non-Military AI Research
More than a year has passed since the U.S. government began taking the first steps into officially supporting artificial intelligence research. Now, AI has its own category in...
By Martijn Rasser
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2020 Democratic Primary Debates: Questions for the Candidates
Press Note
By Neil Bhatiya, Susanna V. Blume, Kara Frederick, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Daniel Kliman, Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Kayla M. Williams
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Coming Soon to the Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill
Wallops Island — a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near a famed national refuge for horses — is mostly known as a launch site for government a...
By Robert O. Work
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Strangelove redux: US experts propose having AI control nuclear weapons
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Hypersonic missiles, stealthy cruise missiles, and weaponized artificial intelligence have so reduced the amount of time that decision makers in the United States would theore...
By Michael Horowitz
