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NOTEWORTHY: DoD Autonomous Weapons Policy
Press Note
In this CNAS Noteworthy, Vice President and Director of Studies Paul Scharre breaks down the new Directive and what it means for the U.S. military’s approach to lethal autonom...
By Paul Scharre
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AI battleships and killer drones: ‘Terminator future’ of war feared by conflict experts
Major advancements in AI weapons and defence technology have sparked fears mankind is heading towards a “Terminator future” of war. And as this ultra-tech advance, there are i...
By Paul Scharre
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Russia Is Building an Army of Robot Weapons, and China's AI Tech Is Helping
In The News
Russia is developing an array of autonomous weapons platforms utilizing artificial intelligence as part of an ambitious push supported by high-tech cooperation with neighborin...
By Samuel Bendett & Jeffrey Edmonds
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Red Cross Calls for More Limits on Autonomous Weapons
In The News
The International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for new international rules on how governments use autonomous weapons, warning that such weapons will pose new challeng...
By Paul Scharre
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Inside Russia’s Robot Army: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Russia has created a new robotic combat unit of Uran-9 unmanned ground vehicles, which have been battle-tested in Syria, though with mixed results. It’s also developing an exp...
By Samuel Bendett
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Unclear on unmanned, Part 3: A New Year’s resolution to slow down
The U.S. Navy began last year racing down a path to field a 355-ship fleet by 2030, a plan in which robot ships made up a significant portion of the new hulls, after Secretary...
By Paul Scharre
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As the US, China, and Russia build new nuclear weapons systems, how will AI be built in?
In The News
Researchers in the United States and elsewhere are paying a lot of attention to the prospect that in the coming years new nuclear weapons—and the infrastructure built to opera...
By Paul Scharre, Michael Horowitz & Alexander Velez-Green
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When Robots Can Decide Whether You Live or Die
In The News
Computers have gotten pretty good at making certain decisions for themselves. Automatic spam filters block most unwanted email. Some US clinics use artificial-intelligence-pow...
By Paul Scharre
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Nearly 100 countries have military drones, and it's changing the way the world prepares for war
In The News
The number of countries with military drones has skyrocketed over the past decade, a new report revealed, showing that nearly 100 countries have this kind of technology incorp...
By Michael Horowitz
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Strangelove redux: US experts propose having AI control nuclear weapons
In The News
Hypersonic missiles, stealthy cruise missiles, and weaponized artificial intelligence have so reduced the amount of time that decision makers in the United States would theore...
By Michael Horowitz
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Report: Kill the idea of “killer robots” before they kill us
The 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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Meet the Future Unmanned Force
In The News
Two 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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Should We Ban ‘Killer Robots’? Can We?
In The News
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 AI
In The News
70-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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The Army’s ATLAS program isn’t building killer robots (yet)
In The News
Last week, a number of media outlets pounced on the idea the U.S. Army may be trying to turn its gun duties over to artificial intelligence, prompting a flurry of headlines ab...
By Michael Horowitz
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Fear & Loathing In AI: How The Army Triggered Fears Of Killer Robots
In The News
The 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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US Army Developing AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons
In The News
A 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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A key U.S. ally is close to adding swarming attack drones to its military arsenal
Swarms 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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No, the Pentagon Is Not Working on Killer Robots—Yet
In The News
The U.S. Department of Defense on Feb. 12 released its roadmap for artificial intelligence, and the most interesting thing about it might be what’s missing from the report: Th...
By Michael Horowitz
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To maintain tech edge, US seeks export controls on AI
In just two words, the phrase “artificial intelligence” captures a deep techno-utopian promise, the notion that through craftsmanship humans can create learning and thinking m...
By Elsa B. Kania
