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Growing conflict between Pentagon and tech engineers
Video
A dozen Google employees quit this week after more than 3,000 signed a petition demanding the tech giant not partner with the Pentagon; national security correspondent Jennife...
By Paul Scharre
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Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Or when a weapon that can hunt its own targets is hacked? Although it sounds like science fiction, the...
By Paul Scharre
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Analysis of the Trump Administration’s Drone Export Policy
Podcast
Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, discusses the Trump Administration’s recent Drone Export Policy and its relat...
By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz
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Autonomous Weapons or “Killer Robots”: The Next Threat to World Peace?
Podcast
Our guest is Paul Scharre, a former Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s the director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New A...
By Paul Scharre
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MWI Podcast: The Future of Autonomous War, with Paul Scharre
Podcast
The fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and autonomous technology are exploding in development. So how will these advancements change the way we fight future ...
By Paul Scharre
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Reform weapons training to protect US troops from brain injury
Commentary
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the signature wound of today’s wars, with nearly 380,000 servicemembers diagnosed since 2000. TBI can come from falls, bullets shrapnel, or the...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Podcast: Defense One Radio: Conversations with Eric Fanning, Paul Scharre and more.
Podcast
In this episode, recorded on Wednesday, May 2, 2018:Aerospace Industries Association CEO Eric Fanning sits down for a chat (30:25);• Then later (47:15) we’ll speak with f...
By Paul Scharre
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Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Podcast
Paul Scharre served in combat beside Jack Murphy in the Army's 3rd Ranger Battalion, and he has just put out a truly thought provoking book that will leave you questioning how...
By Paul Scharre
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Author Discussion on Artificial Intelligence
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A discussion on artificial intelligence from the 16th annualAnnapolis Book Festival that featured Amir Husain, The Sentient Machine, and Paul Scharre, ...
By Paul Scharre
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Report to Army Finds Blast from Some Weapons May Put Shooter's Brain at Risk
Podcast
Military personnel may be endangering their own brains when they operate certain shoulder-fired weapons, according to an Army-commissioned report released Monday. The re...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Killer Robot Technologies with Paul Scharre
Podcast
We interview Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director, Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New American Security, and author of Army of ...
By Paul Scharre
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The future of war will be fought by machines, but will humans still be in charge?
Commentary
Drone swarms. Self-driving tanks. Autonomous sentry guns. Sometimes it seems like the future of warfare arrived on our doorstep overnight, and we’ve all been caught unprepared...
By Paul Scharre
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The first drone warship just joined the Navy and now nearly every element of it is classified
Commentary
The first warship to traverse open waters without a single crew member recently joined the U.S. Navy's fleet after eight years of development and testing. And now nearly every...
By Paul Scharre
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Autonomous Weapons Would Take Warfare To A New Domain, Without Humans
Podcast
Killer robots have been a staple of TV and movies for decades, from Westworldto The Terminator series. But in the real world, killer robots are officially known...
By Paul Scharre
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Will killer robots save us or destroy humanity? | The Stream
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A group of scientists is campaigning for a preemptive ban on autonomous weapons technology that may someday power what they call "killer robots”. Those who support the develop...
By Paul Scharre
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Human judgment and lethal decision-making in war
Commentary
For the fifth year in a row, government delegates meet at the United Nationsin Geneva to discuss autonomous weapons. Meanwhile, the technology that enables greater autonomy in...
By Paul Scharre
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Meet the New Robot Army
Commentary
In contemporary sci-fi—HBO’s “Westworld,” for example—sentient machines take up arms against humanity. In the real world, intelligent—and increasingly autonomous—robots are be...
By Paul Scharre
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Ethics and the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Podcast
Join Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, in a discussion with Amir Husain about the ethical implications of artif...
By Paul Scharre & Amir Husain
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The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation
Commentary
Artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities are growingat an unprecedented rate. These technologies have many widelybeneficial applications, ranging from machine...
By Paul Scharre
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'Tech Tyranny': How Google plans to help China
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By Paul Scharre
