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Forget The Terminator: Robotics For Logistics 1st, Combat 2nd
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Despite heated talk of killer robots and powered armor, the unsexy truth is that artificial intelligence, robotics, and exoskeletons will be hauling ammo and helping mechanics...
By Paul Scharre
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The Days of Secret Military Operations May Soon Be Over. Does That Matter?
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In the age of social media and increasingly available connectivity, experts say it is becoming more and more challenging for the U.S. military to conduct operations under a cl...
By Kara Frederick
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Pentagon looks to exoskeletons to build 'super-soldiers'
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The U.S. Army is investing millions of dollars in experimental exoskeleton technology to make soldiers stronger and more resilient, in what experts say is part of a broader pu...
By Paul Scharre
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Will the Geneva Convention Cover Robots?
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When Dr. Richard J. Gatling designed his gun, it was meant to save lives. The American inventor designed the rapid-fire, spring-loaded, hand-cranked weapon with the express pu...
By Paul Scharre
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To maintain tech edge, US seeks export controls on AI
In just two words, the phrase “artificial intelligence” captures a deep techno-utopian promise, the notion that through craftsmanship humans can create learning and thinking m...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons
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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 ...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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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...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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China's 'Civil-Military Fusion' Has Washington Worried
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The two men posing for photographs in a Nanjing conference room could not have more different backgrounds. On one side was Mao Yongqing, head of the 28th Research Institute of...
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China's application of AI should be a Sputnik moment for the U.S. But will it be?
A conference here to gather American business and military experts to discuss the coming revolution in artificial intelligence was a good Election Day measure of the challenge...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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China’s Beating the U.S. to Market on Combat Drones, By Copying U.S. Technology
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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...
By Paul Scharre, Michael Horowitz & Elsa B. Kania
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Engineering Supersoldiers: Boost in Lethality May Come From Within
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When Sgt. 1st Class Victor Medina received groundbreaking therapy in 2012 involving virtual reality and computer-generated puzzles to help recover from a brain injury sustaine...
By Andrew Herr & Elsa B. Kania
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U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections
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The United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation to interfere in elections, telling them that Amer...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The Next Tech Talent Shortage: Quantum Computing Researchers
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Christopher Savoie, founder and chief executive of a start-up called Zapata, offered jobs this year to three scientists who specialize in an increasingly important technology ...
By Paul Scharre
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China’s grip on electronics manufacturing will be hard to break
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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...
By Gregory C. Allen
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AI experts tell MEPs ban on 'killer robots' is unrealistic
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A panel of defence and artificial intelligence (AI) experts on Wednesday (10 October) poured cold water on the feasibility of an international a ban on autonomous weapons syst...
By Wendy R. Anderson
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Defense Intel Chief Worried About Chinese ‘Integration of Human and Machines’
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The future of human performance is a research race, and the U.S. shouldn’t take its lead for granted, the DIA director says. The U.S. military’s top intelligence officer is in...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Made in China 2025: Xi Jinping's plan to turn China into the AI world leader
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Eleven trillion renminbi: it's a number that's hard to comprehend. In Australian dollars that's about $2.41 trillion — far bigger than Australia's entire economy — and it's th...
By Elsa B. Kania
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It’s No Longer Just a Trade War Between the U.S. and China
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The U.S. confrontation with China that has been ramping up over the past year due to heightened trade tensions, military showdowns, and diplomatic ill will escalated to new le...
By Elsa B. Kania
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CNAS report examines impact of heavy gear load on soldiers
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The ground troops of the U.S. armed forces are carrying more and more gear. A review by the Center for a New American Security says that soldiers in recent wars have carried 9...
By Paul Scharre
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Sounding an AI alarm in Congress over China
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The Trump administration has done little to support artificial intelligence research, experts say. Now, the top members of a House subcommittee are calling for a plan to maint...
By Paul Scharre
