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Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I.
In The News
SAN FRANCISCO — There is little doubt that the Defense Department needs help from Silicon Valley’s biggest companies as it pursues work on artificial intelligence. The questio...
By Robert O. Work, Gregory C. Allen & Paul Scharre
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CNAS Launches Artificial Intelligence Task Force
Press Release
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce the launch of its Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security, which will examine how the ...
By Paul Scharre, Robert O. Work, Dr. Andrew W. Moore, Amir Husain & Cole Stevens
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The Challenger
In The News
NOTHING moves in the 40 black cabinets in the facility outside Shanghai except the water in the cooling system. But the 10m processing units within crunch through numbers at a...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Top Ten Bio Convergence Trends Impacting the Future Operational Environment
As Mad Scientist Laboratory has noted in previous blog posts, War is an intrinsically human endeavor. Rapid innovations in the biological sciences are changing how we work, li...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Mad Scientist 2018: Bio-Convergence and the Changing Character of War
This Mad Scientist conference, co-sponsored by the U.S. Army TRADOC G-2 and SRI International, brings leading scientists, innovators, and scholars from academia, industry, and...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Genius Machines: The Next Decade of Artificial Intelligence
In just the last five years, artificial intelligence has evolved from a staple of science fiction to a real-world magnet for large-scale investment, wonder, and hype. Increase...
By Elsa B. Kania & Paul Scharre
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SINET ITSEF 2018
The new National Security Strategy has declared that certain nations are strategic competitors. Russia, China, and other groups are using cyber as an extension of competition...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firesto...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Google is quietly providing AI technology for drone strike targeting project
GOOGLE HAS QUIETLY secured a contract to work on the Defense Department’s new algorithmic warfare initiative, providing assistance with a project to apply its artificial intel...
By Gregory C. Allen
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Air Force Retiring Predator, the Drone That Changed the World
The Predator, the unmanned aerial vehicle that redefined the U.S. military’s combat tactics while executing thousands of missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other war zones ove...
By Paul Scharre
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Russia Will Be Back in 2018, Cyber Experts Warns
With the 2018 midterms on the horizon, America’s electoral system needs to be ready to fend off the kind of online attacks that besieged it during the 2016 election, cybersecu...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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The New Arms Race in AI
Four years ago, planners at the Pentagon reviewed estimates of China’s growing military investments with what one called a “palpable sense of alarm.” China, the planners deter...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Stranger Than Science Fiction: The Future for Digital Dictatorships
While Americans and Europeans debate whether the internet and social media are undermining democracy, a big question for many Chinese is whether cutting-edge technology streng...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Trump has done nothing to stop Russia from meddling in the 2018 midterms
President Donald Trump has barely acknowledged that Russians meddled in the 2016 presidential election, and now it looks like he’s doing nothing to prevent Moscow from interfe...
By Michael Sulmeyer
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Seeking to outsmart US, China races ahead on artificial intelligence
WASHINGTON: When a Google computer program beat the world’s best player of an ancient Chinese board game last May, it might have seemed like an incremental milestone. But for ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Why Artificial Intelligence Researchers Should Be More Paranoid
LIFE HAS GOTTEN more convenient since 2012, when breakthroughs in machine learning triggered the ongoing frenzy of investment in artificial intelligence. Speech recognition wo...
By Paul Scharre
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Good News: A.I. Is Getting Cheaper. That’s Also Bad News.
SAN FRANCISCO — A Silicon Valley start-up recently unveiled a drone that can set a course entirely on its own. A handy smartphone app allows the user to tell the airborne dron...
By Paul Scharre
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U.S. alliances need to reflect needs of modern warfare, experts say
WASHINGTON — Since the beginning of U.S. invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. has had the ability to project power in a relatively unchecked fashion. But some military ...
By Paul Scharre
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As China Marches Forward on A.I., the White House Is Silent
SAN FRANCISCO — In July, China unveiled a plan to become the world leader in artificial intelligence and create an industry worth $150 billion to its economy by 2030. To techn...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Co-Inventor of BlackBerry Is Building Canada’s Quantum Brain Trust
After years of watching his brand wither during the iPhone era, Lazaridis stepped down as the company’s co-chief executive officer in 2012 and devoted most of his energy to re...
By Elsa B. Kania
