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China’s massive investment in artificial intelligence has an insidious downside
BEIJING—In a gleaming high-rise here in northern Beijing's Haidian district, two hardware jocks in their 20s are testing new computer chips that might someday make smartphones...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Co-Inventor of BlackBerry Is Building Canada’s Quantum Brain Trust
It’s early days for quantum computers, the still mostly theoretical subatomic processors so powerful they can make our fastest supercomputer look like an abacus. Mike Lazaridi...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Military Not Ready for the Next Larger War, Experts Say
While the U.S. military is ready for another Iraq War or Syria-like intervention, it is unprepared to fight a war against bigger challengers such as China or Russia, national ...
By Paul Scharre
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No Easy Fix for Big Data’s Threat to National Security
Silicon Valley’s relentless quest to collect and collate every shred of consumer data hit a snag last week following the revelation that a global exercise heatmap, published o...
By Paul Scharre
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China’s Fourth Industrial Revolution: Artificial Intelligence
Bottom Line: China’s nationwide pursuit to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) is an attempt to not only match U.S. economic power, but to bypass it geo-st...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Military Not Ready for the Next Larger War, Experts Say
While the U.S. military is ready for another Iraq War or Syria-like intervention, it is unprepared to fight a war against bigger challengers such as China or Russia, national ...
By Paul Scharre
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Selva: FY19 budget sees ‘increasing’ investments in AI, machine teaming
WASHINGTON — Gen. Paul Selva, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the Pentagon plans on “increasing” investments in artificial intelligence and man-machine te...
By Robert O. Work
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China’s AI dreams
Last year, China’s chief governing body announced an ambitious scheme for the country to become a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) technology by 2030. The Chinese ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Paul Scharre on NPR: How Tech, Fitness Trackers Affect The Military
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Paul Scharre about the discovery that fitness trackers such as Fitbit are revealing "heat maps" of where U.S. military personnel are running. Sch...
By Paul Scharre
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Congress Must Protect Tech From DoD Bureaucracy, And Itself: Experts
UPDATED w/ Mahnken interview CAPITOL HILL: The US military is not ready for war against Russia or China, leading experts told the House Armed Services Committeethis morning. H...
By Paul Scharre
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The Strava Heat Map and the End of Secrets
A MODERN EQUIVALENT of the World War II era warning that “loose lips sink ships” may be “FFS don’t share your Fitbit data on duty.” Over the weekend, researchers and journalis...
By Paul Scharre
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Autonomous weapons are a game-changer
AI-empowered robots pose entirely new dangers, possibly of an existential kind...
By Paul Scharre
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Getting to grips with military robotics
PETER SINGER, AN expert on future warfare at the New America think-tank, is in no doubt. “What we have is a series of technologies that change the game. They’re not science fi...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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Bob Work has an idea to improve artificial intelligence
Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, the architect behind the Department of Defense’s Third Offset strategy, predicted the Pentagon could soon establish an Artificial ...
By Robert O. Work
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Raisina 2018 | Conflicts, Rights and the Machine: Addressing the Evolving Methods of Warfareel
With global military spending on the rise, we may now be on the cusp of a series of new technological innovations that will fundamentally influence the way we conduct warfare....
By Elsa B. Kania
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Australian Strategic Policy Institute's International Cyber Policy Centre to host CNAS adjunct fellow Elsa Kania as a 2018 Fulbright Specialist
Press Note
The CNAS Technology and National Security Program is pleased to announce that adjunct fellow Elsa Kania has been selected by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI)...
By Paul Scharre & Elsa B. Kania
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CNAS Adjunct Senior Fellow Dr. Melissa Flagg to Serve as the new lead for Army Research Lab - Northeast
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The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) congratulates Dr. Melissa Flagg, former Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Technology and National Security Program, on her return to...
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Russia says it killed rebels behind swarm drone attack in Syria, but experts see more such strikes ahead
Russia's defense ministry said Friday it tracked down and killed the group of militants responsible for a recent coordinated drone attack against one of its bases in Syria. Ex...
By Paul Scharre
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Experts: US lag in tech, national security race against China could worsen under Trump
WASHINGTON — In a sobering reminder of a U.S. lag in the tech-based national security race against China, a panel of experts told a House committee that the country faces an u...
By Paul Scharre
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Don’t fear the robopocalypse: Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharresc
Paul Scharre, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, has pretty good credentials when it comes to autonomous weapons. If you’ve ever heard of Directive 300...
By Paul Scharre
