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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
