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Future of Life Institute: AI and Nuclear Weapons – Trust, Accidents, and New Risks with Paul Scharre and Mike Horowitz
Podcast
In 1983, Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov prevented what could have been a devastating nuclear war by trusting his gut instinct that the algorithm in his early-warning...
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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The Algorithms of August
Commentary
An artificial intelligence arms race is coming. It is unlikely to play out in the way that the mainstream media suggest, however: as a faceoff between the United States and Ch...
By Michael Horowitz
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Artificial intelligence beyond the superpowers
Commentary
Much of the debate over how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect geopolitics focuses on the emerging arms race between Washington and Beijing, as well as investments by ma...
By Michael Horowitz & Itai Barsade
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Horns of a Dilemma Podcast: Will Artificial Intelligence Change Everything?
Podcast
From world leaders, to commercial titans, to scholars, more and more people are coming to believe that advances in artificial intelligence will change the world in dramat...
By Michael Horowitz
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Artificial Intelligence, International Competition, and the Balance of Power
Commentary
In early September 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin brought artificial intelligence from the labs of Silicon Valley, academia, and the basement of the Pentagon to the fo...
By Michael Horowitz
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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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The promise and peril of military applications of artificial intelligence
Commentary
Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment in the national security space. While the public may still equate the notion of artificial intelligence in the military context...
By Michael Horowitz
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A new U.S. policy makes it (somewhat) easier to export drones
Commentary
The Trump administration just announced a new drone export policy designed to make it easier for U.S. companies to export drones, including armed drones. Given concerns about ...
By Michael Horowitz & Joshua Schwartz
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Will Killer Robots Be Banned? Lessons from Past Civil Society Campaigns
Commentary
After several years of debate, on November 13-17, 2017, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will convene a Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) to discuss the ...
By Michael Horowitz
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Drones Podcast Series: Drones and the MTCR
Podcast
In this episode of the Drones Podcast Series, CNAS experts Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander, and Paul Scharre discuss the Missile Technology Control Regime....
By Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
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Drones Podcast Series: U.S. Policy and Exports
Podcast
On this episode, Michael Horowitz, Dan Gettinger, and Alexandra Sander join Paul Scharre to discuss U.S. policy changes on unmanned aircraft exports in recent years....
By Michael Horowitz, Dan Gettinger, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
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Drones aren't missiles, so don't regulate them like they are
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a voluntary arrangement founded by seven countries in 1987 to prevent the spread of longe...
By Michael Horowitz
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The Future of War is Fast Approaching in the Pacific: Are the U.S. Military Services Ready?
Is the era of unparalleled U.S. conventional military superiority coming to an end? Many senior U.S. military leaders are worried. The ongoing general proliferation of precisi...
By Michael Horowitz
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The Ethics & Morality of Robotic Warfare: Assessing the Debate over Autonomous Weapons
There is growing concern in some quarters that the drones used by the United States and others represent precursors to the further automation of military force through the use...
By Michael Horowitz
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Who’ll want artificially intelligent weapons? ISIS, democracies, or autocracies?
One of the biggest fears about the nexus of artificial intelligence and the military is that machine learning—a type of artificial intelligence that allows computers to learn ...
By Michael Horowitz
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Building social science knowledge on public attitudes and autonomous weapons
Last week, Charli Carpenter published an important piece advancing the conversation about public attitudes, public conscience, and autonomous weapons. Her post critiqued my re...
By Michael Horowitz
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Dr. Michael Horowitz before the Subcommittee on Seapower and Power Projection Forces
Dr. Michael Horowitz, CNAS Adjunct Senior Fellow, testified before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Power Projection Forces....
By Michael Horowitz
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The Morality of Robotic War
Earlier this month, “Avengers: Age of Ultron” was released in theaters across the United States, featuring Marvel comics superheroes battling evil robots powered by artificial...
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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Keeping Killer Robots on a Tight Leash
This week, delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons will discuss autonomous weapon systems, or what activists call “killer robots.” Colorful ...
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
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Paul Scharre and Michael Horowitz on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
hen the robots start thinking for themselves in the movies or on TV, it’s never a good sign for the humans. Whether the setting is Earth or Caprica, letting robots think and g...
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
