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China’s Quest for Political Control and Military Supremacy in the Cyber Domain
Commentary
The People’s Republic of China seeks to contest information dominance (制信息权) and discursive dominance (话语权) in cyberspace. For the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), cybersecurity...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Is China seeking “quantum surprise?”
Commentary
Hype about artificial intelligence (AI) seems at or near a peak. A wave of hype is also emerging around quantum technologies, particularly quantum computing. When these two wa...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China’s AI Agenda Advances
Commentary
Are China’s ambitions to “lead the world” in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030 credible? China’s rapid emergence as an AI powerhouse is often hyped and sensationalized, var...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Strategic Innovation and Great Power Competition
Commentary
At this time of disruptive transitions, the new U.S. National Defense Strategy rightly recognizes that the character of warfare is changing due to the advent of a range of dis...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Chinese Sub Commanders May Get AI Help for Decision-Making
Commentary
What can we learn from a recent news report that China is seeking to develop a nuclear submarine with “AI-augmented brainpower” to give the PLA Navy an “upper hand in battle”?...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Tech entanglement—China, the United States, and artificial intelligence
Commentary
In Washington and Beijing’s complex bilateral relationship, artificial intelligence has emerged as a new domain of both cooperation and competition. Even as China and the Unit...
By Elsa B. Kania
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“Unmanned, Intangible, Silent Warfare” – New Threats and Options for Taiwan
As the character of conflict is transformed by the advent of robotics and artificial intelligence on the battlefield, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recognizes and...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Human Factor in the “Unmanned” Systems of the People's Liberation Army
Commentary
Even as the character of conflict is transformed by the advent of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) on the battlefield, the human factor is no less important in this m...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China Is On a Whole-of-Nation Push for AI. The US Must Match It
Commentary
China has made no secret of its ambitions to lead the world in artificial intelligence, nor of the military and geopolitical advantage it hopes to gain from this rapidly advan...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Artificial Intelligence and Chinese Power
Commentary
The United States’ technological sophistication has long supported its military predominance. In the 1990s, the U.S. military started to hold an uncontested advantage over its...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The critical human element in the machine age of warfare
Commentary
In 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped to prevent the accidental outbreak of nuclear war by recognizing that a false alarm in Soviet early warning systems was not a real report of a...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Emerging technology could make China the world’s next innovation superpower
Commentary
During China’s 19th Party Congress in October, President Xi Jinping placed innovation at the center of China’s national strategy. His remarks called for building China into a ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Policy Dimension of Leading in AI
Commentary
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is creating new challenges for law, policy, and governance at domestic and international levels. Although advances in AI could caus...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Party’s ‘Hurdles’: the Internet, Propaganda, and Power
Ahead of China’s annual National Cyber Security Publicity (Propaganda) Week, the Cyberspace Administration of China’s Theoretical Studies Center Group published an article in ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China Is Using America’s Own Plan to Dominate the Future of Artificial Intelligence
In late 2016, the Obama administration published three reports that shared an extraordinary conclusion: advances in machine learning, a technology that allows systems to learn...
By Gregory C. Allen & Elsa B. Kania
