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The Race to Save Encryption
In The News
National-security experts and politicians have a message for America: A significant portion of the sensitive data we have today is going to be cracked by foreign powers in the...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Executive Order Highlights Electromagnetic Pulse Threat
In March, President Donald Trump signed an “Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses,” which many observers see as an important step in co...
By Paul Scharre
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Democrats and Republicans are freaked out by Chinese 5G technology — but are they just being paranoid?
In The News
Democrats and Republicans rarely agree on anything, but this week, the parties united to condemn one common enemy: China. The views of President Trump and lawmakers on both si...
By Peter Harrell
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping the Workforce
In The News
Walmart last month announced that shoppers soon might see a lot more robots in its stores -- but the company wasn't referring to toy robots or even human assistant gadgets tha...
By Megan Lamberth
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Trump Vs. Huawei: The World Is Watching
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President Trump’s new Executive Order on imported technology bares sharp teeth at Huawei and other Chinese companies, but it doesn’t have any teeth yet. The actual impact will...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Existing US Huawei gear has risks, but forcing removal may not be a priority
In The News
In the wake of recent U.S. government actions to prevent future use of telecommunications equipment from certain international sources, security experts said risks remain for ...
By Peter Harrell
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This Chinese facial recognition start-up can identify a person in seconds
In The News
In China, facial recognition technology — biometric computer applications that automatically identify an individual from a database of digital images — is a part of daily life...
By Kara Frederick
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Avoiding the AI weapons race
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Today's great powers are sliding toward a new arms race, this time on the battleground of lethal computer code, but experts say that rushing to develop autonomous weapons — wh...
By Paul Scharre
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Report: Kill the idea of “killer robots” before they kill us
The global competition to develop fully autonomous weapons systems guided by artificial intelligence risks developing into a full-blown arms race, according to a new report fr...
By Paul Scharre
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Pentagon official: Threats to US space systems 'at an all-time high'
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A senior Pentagon official warns that the Russian and Chinese militaries are refocusing their efforts to counter U.S. space operations, posing an existential threat to America...
By Adam Routh
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Paul Scharre Wins Colby Award for Book “Army of None”
Press Release
Washington, April 23, 2019 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) congratulates Paul Scharre, Director of the CNAS Technology and National Security Program, who has w...
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Western AI researchers partnered with Chinese surveillance firms
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Leading western artificial intelligence researchers have partnered with Chinese organisations tied to Beijing’s surveillance state, raising fears that a severe lack of oversig...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Air Force Chief Technology Officer Position to Oversee S&T
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The Air Force plans to appoint a new chief technology officer to direct the $2.8 billion science and technology enterprise and consider which future tech areas would benefit t...
By Paul Scharre
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New U.S. Policy on Cuba Sanctions Threatens EU Ties
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The Trump administration plans to intensify pressure against Cuba by allowing U.S. nationals to lodge claims against foreign companies that do business there, a senior U.S. of...
By Peter Harrell
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Could artificial intelligence save the Pentagon $15 billion a year?
The first time Chinese government officials came to visit Tom Siebel in hopes of convincing him to work on artificial intelligence projects it was 2011. Then delegations of ma...
By Kara Frederick
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How China tried and failed to win the AI race: The inside story
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Chances are you've seen the stories, with headlines like "AI-driven technologies reshape city life in Beijing" or "Robots serving up savory food at Chinese artificial intellig...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Meet the Future Unmanned Force
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Two new autonomous aircraft concepts that promise to redefine the Air Force’s unmanned fleet are moving forward. The latest, Skyborg, is an autonomous drone prototyping progr...
By Paul Scharre
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The Future of AI: Pentagon’s New Center Leading the Way
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Pentagon officials have long said that strides in artificial intelligence technology could revolutionize the future of warfare. With major efforts such as Project Maven — whic...
By Kara Frederick
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AI pilots ‘deceptively easy’ to start, but ‘fiendishly hard’ to scale up
The Office of Management and Budget, as well as current and former Defense Department leadership, have acknowledged that improving data management, enhancing agency IT archite...
By Robert O. Work
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China and the US are locked in a crucial battle for space domination
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Fifty years after the first moon landing, an American triumph that gripped the world, China marked the start of 2019 with its own lunar achievement. Chang’e-4, a Chinese probe...
By Elsa B. Kania
