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When weapons can think for themselves
In The News
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...
By Paul Scharre
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Why are Militants Using Drones? UAV Weapons have Spread Far Beyond Nation States
The first airstrike ever launched from an unmanned drone was a failure. On October 7, 2001—the first night of the war in Afghanistan—a CIA Predator drone buzzed above a compou...
By Paul Scharre
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A sober treatise on the future of warfare warns of the perils of autonomous robotic combatants
Sooner than you may think, robotic swarms will intercept incoming missiles at hypersonic speed, while dueling cyberattacks and countermeasures transpire at nearly the speed of...
By Paul Scharre
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Book Review: "Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War"
In The News
Scharre, a former U.S. Army Ranger, has thought more than most about the implications of autonomous weapons. He has spent time not only among their designers and operators but...
By Paul Scharre
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Why Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Work With the Pentagon
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Is Silicon Valley going to war? In 2013, Amazon beat IBM for a contract to host the United States intelligence community’s data cloud. Microsoft now markets Azure Government S...
By Robert O. Work & Elsa B. Kania
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Modernizing Army modernization
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The Army is at 'an inflection point,' and modernizing is job No. 1 and priority No. 1. But modernization will take every ounce of leaders' will and a massive culture change to...
By Paul Scharre
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Military Set for Cyber Attacks on Foreign Infrastructure
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American military cyber warriors are ready to shut critical infrastructures in China and Russia during a future conflict by conducting cyber intrusions into their networks, ac...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Command and control: A fight for the future of government hacking
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Following years of effort and billions of dollars’ worth of research and planning, the nation finally has a fully operational force of cyberwarriors at U.S. Cyber Command. Yet...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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'Very urgent': Activists want global treaty to ban killer robots by 2019
Pitted against the glacial pace of the UN's discussion process, activists hoping for an international ban on killer robots have repeatedly been left fuming and frustrated. Pit...
By Paul Scharre
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A Global Arms Race for Killer Robots Is Transforming the Battlefield
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Over the weekend, experts on military artificial intelligence from more than 80 world governments converged on the U.N. offices in Geneva for the start of a week’s talks on au...
By Paul Scharre
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Why do the Chinese seem more willing to give up their privacy for security than Australians?
Nick Liu knows all too well about the massive troves of data being gathered and analysed by technology companies, so he held off using his phone to pay for foods as long as he...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Legal Scholars, Software Engineers Revolt Against War Robots
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WASHINGTON: The debate over the use of artificial intelligence in warfare is heating up, with Google employees protesting their company’s Pentagon contracts, South Koreans pro...
By Paul Scharre
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Ex-Google Executive Opens a School for AI, with China's Help
WHEN CHINA’S GOVERNMENT said last summer it intends to surpass the US and lead the world in artificial intelligence by 2030, skeptics pointed to a major problem. Despite gobs ...
By Elsa B. Kania & Robert O. Work
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Game of Drones: China Ramps up Development to Challenge U.S. Dominance
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One of China’s top drone engineers says the country’s military drone program has entered a new phase of development as China attempts to close the gap in America’s dominance o...
By Paul Scharre
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The Next NSA Chief is More Used to Cyberwar than Spy Games
In The News
AFTER SAILING THROUGH two friendly Senate hearings—one so uncontroversial that only six senators tops bothered to even show up at any given point in the hour—Lieutenant Genera...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Google Workers Urge C.E.O. to Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
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WASHINGTON — Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company’s involvement in a Pentagon program that uses art...
By Paul Scharre
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Army Rolling Ahead With Manned-Unmanned Convoys
The Army is moving forward with efforts to develop an autonomous convoy capability that could help troops transport supplies, equipment and other resources more efficiently an...
By Paul Scharre
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Huawei flourishes despite perennial hurdles in US
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Huawei is the manifestation of everything the US fears and loathes about China: a high-tech giant, founded by a former army officer, that it believes has ties to the Communist...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China's Social Credit System seeks to assign citizens scores, engineer social behaviour
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Chinese authorities claim they have banned more than 7 million people deemed "untrustworthy" from boarding flights, and nearly 3 million others from riding on high-speed train...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Skeptics Ask: Can Army Field Armed Robots By 2024?
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Can the Army develop a Robotic Combat Vehicle within six years? Some of the experts we spoke to were deeply skeptical, including veteran congressional staffers badly burned by...
By Paul Scharre
