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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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Modernizing Army modernization
In The News
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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'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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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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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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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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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
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Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I.
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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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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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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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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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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
