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Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons
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It’s a freezing, snowy day on the border between Estonia and Russia. Soldiers from the two nations are on routine border patrol, each side accompanied by an autonomous weapon ...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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To understand autonomous weapons, think about electronic warfare
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Remotely piloted vehicles are an anomaly of open skies. For as much as the wars of the United States have been defined by drones and drone strikes, those missions are only pos...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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China's application of AI should be a Sputnik moment for the U.S. But will it be?
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A conference here to gather American business and military experts to discuss the coming revolution in artificial intelligence was a good Election Day measure of the challenge...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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Pentagon Doesn’t Want Real Artificial Intelligence In War, Former Official Says
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The term “artificial intelligence” gets thrown around a lot today, especially in government circles, where leaders are eager to get ahead of the technological curve. But the m...
By Robert O. Work
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Google announces withdrawal from DoD’s JEDI cloud contract
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Google has pulled out of the competitive Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract. A spokesperson for the tech giant said that they couldn’t be sure that JEDI wo...
By Robert O. Work
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Artificial intelligence debate flares at Google
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Google’s decision not to renew a controversial artificial intelligence (AI) contract with the Pentagon has reignited a debate about what Silicon Valley’s role should be with r...
By Robert O. Work
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Why A ‘Human In The Loop’ Can’t Control AI: Richard Danzig
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CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN SECURITY: How do you stop a Terminator scenariobefore it starts? Real US robots won’t take over like the fictional SkyNet, Pentagon officials promise...
By Robert O. Work
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Google to drop Pentagon AI contract after employee objections to the ‘business of war’
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Google will not seek to extend its contract next year with the Defense Department for artificial intelligence used to analyze drone video, squashing a controversial alliance t...
By Robert O. Work
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The U.S. Navy Is Developing Mothership Drones for Coastal Defense
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The U.S. Navy and researchers from Florida Atlantic University are developing robotic boats that can launch aerial and sub drones to protect U.S. coastal waters. “Our focus wi...
By Robert O. Work
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Pentagon Will Expand AI Project Prompting Protests at Google
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At Google's Campus in Mountain View, California, executives are trying to assuage thousands of employees protesting a contract with the Pentagon’s flagship artificial-intellig...
By Robert O. Work
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What Happens When Your Bomb-Defusing Robot Becomes a Weapon
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Micah Xavier Johnson spent the last day of his life in a standoff, holed up in a Dallas community-college building. By that point, he had already shot 16 people. Negotiators w...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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Will our next war be fought among the stars?
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Sitting at the controls of a Boeing space-flight simulator, “docking” the company’s planned “Starliner” craft with an imaginary space station, you begin to understand why the ...
By Robert O. Work
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Why Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Work With the Pentagon
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Is Silicon Valley going to war? In 2013, Amazon beat IBM for a contract to host the United States intelligence community’s data cloud. Microsoft now markets Azure Government S...
By Robert O. Work & Elsa B. Kania
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Ex-Google Executive Opens a School for AI, with China's Help
WHEN CHINA’S GOVERNMENT said last summer it intends to surpass the US and lead the world in artificial intelligence by 2030, skeptics pointed to a major problem. Despite gobs ...
By Elsa B. Kania & Robert O. Work
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The Navy's Secret Wish: Bring Back the Old F-14 Tomcat from the Dead?
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The F-35C was never designed to be an air superiority fighter. Indeed, naval planners in the mid-1990s wanted the JSF to be a strike-oriented aircraft with only a 6.5G airfram...
By Robert O. Work
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Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I.
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SAN FRANCISCO — There is little doubt that the Defense Department needs help from Silicon Valley’s biggest companies as it pursues work on artificial intelligence. The questio...
By Robert O. Work, Gregory C. Allen & Paul Scharre
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Performance Enhancers: From Battlefield to Playing Field
In the modern era, discussions about performance-enhancing technologies tend to take place primarily in the context of sports. Indeed, it is within that context that we have c...
By Robert O. Work
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The US is Accelerating Development of Its Own ‘Invincible’ Hypersonic Weaponsw
Last spring, representatives from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, came to the office of then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work and laid out some ha...
By Robert O. Work
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Budget Deal Likely to Deliver Hefty Business to Defense Companies
The recent budget deal has handed U.S. defense companies an extra $75 billion over the next two years as the Pentagon boosts spending on aircraft, missiles, tanks and maintain...
By Robert O. Work
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Shanahan focuses 'down and in' as Pentagon's No. 2
SAN DIEGO — After months spent drawing up plans for the military's future, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan says he is ready to get out of the Pentagon and carry out ...
By Robert O. Work
