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Special Forces face down impacts of war on terrorThe Pentagon’s Special Operations Command — known as SOCOM — is looking into how brain trauma from the 17-year war on terror in the Middle East has impacted elite US troops. ...
By Paul Scharre
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For U.S. Military Drones, Airspace Is Growing More Congested, DangerousUnmanned U.S. surveillance aircraft, with their suites of advanced technology, are the high-price product of years of domestic drone development during an era of nearly uncont...
By Paul Scharre
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How the Pentagon Nickel-and-Dimed Its Way Into Losing a DroneWednesday’s downing of a U.S. drone by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard exposes a weakness in U.S. operations. The United States has some of the world’s most sophisticated drones fo...
By Paul Scharre
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Robotic fighter jets could soon join military pilots on combat missions. Here's why.Military pilots may soon have a new kind of wingman to depend upon: not flesh-and-blood pilots but fast-flying, sensor-studded aerial drones that fly into combat to scout enem...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Executive Order Highlights Electromagnetic Pulse ThreatIn 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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Technology & National Security
Report: Kill the idea of “killer robots” before they kill usThe 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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Avoiding the AI weapons raceToday'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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Air Force Chief Technology Officer Position to Oversee S&TThe 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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Meet the Future Unmanned ForceTwo 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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How swarming drones will change warfareIn February, the defence secretary said "swarm squadrons" will be deployed by the British armed forces in the coming years. The US has also been testing interconnected, co-ope...
By Paul Scharre
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Here’s the Key Innovation in DARPA AI Project: Ethics From the StartA new effort to build patrol drones for urban fights began by forming an ethics advisory board. A DARPA program seeks AI-infused drones that can help prevent friendly fire and...
By Paul Scharre
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Should We Ban ‘Killer Robots’? Can We?We now live in a world where a Campaign To Stop Killer Robots is a deadly serious thing, officially endorsed by 26 national governments. (28, if you count Palestine and the Va...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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Genocide Swarms & Assassin Drones: The Case For Banning Lethal AI70-ton robotic battle tanks? Scary. Three grams of explosive on a mini-drone that knows your face? Also scary. Thousands of such drones? Millions? That’s potentially a strateg...
By Paul Scharre
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Fear & Loathing In AI: How The Army Triggered Fears Of Killer RobotsThe Army rolled out its ATLAS targeting AI so clumsily that it blindsided the Pentagon’s own Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and inspired headlines about “AI-powered kill...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
From Space Force to AI, a $750 Billion Defense Puzzle AwaitsThe Pentagon’s next budget request is likely to be a hotbed of pivotal issues that will mire Congress in divisive debates and lobbying wars. Lawmakers will have to consider a...
By Paul Scharre
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US Army Developing AI-Powered Autonomous WeaponsA new initiative by the US Army suggests “another significant step towards lethal autonomous weapons,” warns a leading artificial-intelligence researcher who has called for a ...
By Paul Scharre
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Editorial: Congress should approve the rightsized Space Force conceptKeeping the Space Force within the Air Force, as directed by President Donald Trump this week, serves the national interest. There was no reason to create an entirely new and ...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
A key U.S. ally is close to adding swarming attack drones to its military arsenalSwarms of small attack drones that confuse and overwhelm anti-aircraft defenses could soon become an important part of the modern military arsenal, Britain’s defense secretary...
By Paul Scharre
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Which Country Owns Data? Increasingly, It's ChinaTo understand how rapidly the global datasphere – the amount of data around the world that is created, captured, and replicated online – is growing, consider one word: zettaby...
By Paul Scharre
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Algorithmic Warfare: AI Project to Link Military, Silicon ValleyIt was almost a year ago when Google employees made waves from Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C., by signing a letter objecting to the company’s work with the Defense Departm...
By Paul Scharre
