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Combat Drones Made in China Are Coming to a Conflict Near You
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A dozen years into its fight with the Islamic insurgent group Boko Haram, Nigeria is getting some new weapons: a pair of Wing Loong II drones from China. The deal is one of a ...
By Michael Horowitz
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The military is calling in AI for support
For all our fears about Terminator-style killer robots, the aim of AI in the U.S. military is likely to be on augmenting humans, not replacing them.Why it matters: AI has been...
By Michael Horowitz
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Ex-Google Boss Says Artificial Intelligence Will Be Key to U.S. National Security
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The former top executive of Google described artificial intelligence as a linchpin in global power struggles and warned the U.S. could fall behind rivals like China unless it ...
By Ainikki Riikonen & Michael Horowitz
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Trump Eases Restrictions On Armed Drone Sales Abroad
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The Trump administration is relaxing arms export restrictions, a move long sought by drone makers but one that critics say will provide little competitive edge to U.S. compani...
By Michael Horowitz
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Trump admin officially makes it easier to export military drones
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The U.S. State Department has officially loosened restrictions on exporting military-grade unmanned aerial vehicles to foreign nations, a move long sought by the defense indus...
By Michael Horowitz
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Pentagon to Adopt Detailed Principles for Using AI
The Defense Department will soon adopt a detailed set of rules to govern how it develops and uses artificial intelligence, officials familiar with the matter told Defense One....
By Michael Horowitz
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As the US, China, and Russia build new nuclear weapons systems, how will AI be built in?
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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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The Pentagon's AI Chief Prepares for Battle
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Nearly every day, in war zones around the world, American military forces request fire support. By radioing coordinates to a howitzer miles away, infantrymen can deliver the a...
By Martijn Rasser & Michael Horowitz
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Nearly 100 countries have military drones, and it's changing the way the world prepares for war
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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
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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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Two Ways to Ward off Killer Spacecraft
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If you worry that the recent near-collision between U.S. and Russian warships or Iran’s downing of an American drone could escalate into war, you should be even more worried a...
By Michael Horowitz
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The Army’s ATLAS program isn’t building killer robots (yet)
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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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US Military Changing ‘Killing Machine’ Robo-tank Program After Controversy
It was a frightening and dramatic headline: “The US Army Wants to Turn Tanks Into AI-Powered Killing Machines.” The story, published this week in Quartz, details the new Advan...
By Michael Horowitz
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No, the Pentagon Is Not Working on Killer Robots—Yet
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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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Autonomous weapons and the new laws of war
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The Harop, a kamikaze drone, bolts from its launcher like a horse out of the gates. But it is not built for speed, nor for a jockey. Instead it just loiters, unsupervised, too...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz
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China’s Beating the U.S. to Market on Combat Drones, By Copying U.S. Technology
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The mockup of China's CH-7 combat drone unveiled at Zhuhai Airshow this week looks a lot like one the U.S. Navy was developing — until it dropped the project, allowing China t...
By Paul Scharre, Michael Horowitz & Elsa B. Kania
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The CIA wants permission to kill terrorists in Afghanistan with drones, which could endanger U.S. troops
The CIA is pushing for approval to conduct lethal drone strikes in Afghanistan for the first time, an idea that some in the Pentagon reportedly worry could place U.S. troops i...
By Michael Horowitz
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Predator Drone Maker General Atomics Flying Spy Missions For the Pentagon Since April
Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Technology and National Security Research Program Michael Horowitz examines the Air Force recruitment of drone pilots in Defense One....
By Michael Horowitz
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We're Fighting Killer Robots the Wrong Way
Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Technology and National Security Research Program Michael Horowitz examines the effect of robotics technology on drones in The Wall Street Journal...
By Michael Horowitz
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Battle lines drawn around the legality of ‘killer robots’
20YY Warfare Initiative Director Paul Scharre and Adjunct Senior Fellow Dr. Michael Horowitz weigh in on the legality of ‘killer robots.’...
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
