Artificial Intelligence

AI Favors Autocracy, But Democracies Can Still Fight Back
As Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie note in their recent book, “AI’s [artificial intelligence’s] new capabilities are both marvels and distractions.” The marvel versus distraction dichotomy is an interesting one:...

Age of Machines: The U.S. Army Is Testing AI to Win the Future
As rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) continue to reshape the future of warfare, some question whether there are limits to its capacity when compared to human intelligence. U.S. Army...

The Army Is Teaching AI Systems How to Fight the Wars of the Future
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD—In the future, warfare is likely to involve a dangerous and unpredictable mixture of air, sea, land, space, and cyber operations, creating a complex, interwoven set of variables...

Is Google’s Artificial Intelligence Bot Sentient? Not Everyone Is Buying It
The Washington Post ran an article last week that seemed to portend something reminiscent of the scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day in which sentient machines take over the world....

Focus on the Human Element to Win the AI Arms Race
Chinese investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy have been used to encourage greater investment by the United States. Much attention is paid to relative government expenditures, commercial, and gaming...

Shared Responsibility: Enacting Military AI Ethics in U.S. Coalitions
In March 2021, Google’s Eric Schmidt and former Department of Defense (DoD) deputy secretary Bob Work wrote in their preface to the 756-page report of the bipartisan National Security Commission...

Artificial Intelligence And the Human Context of War
Excitement and fear about artificial intelligence (AI) have been building for years. Many believe that AI is poised to transform war as profoundly as it has business. There is a...

How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Israeli Intelligence Collection
Intelligence is a profession as old as time, but new advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing it like never before. As these new technologies mature, they are...

Why China’s New AI Helicopter Program Looks Just Like America’s
China’s helicopter modernization plan appears to closely mirror or even copy several key aspects of the United States’ modernization efforts, particularly its focus on high-speed helicopters enabled with artificial intelligence...

Sitting Out of the Artificial Intelligence Arms Race Is Not an Option
Viewing the dangerous advances in military technology, from Nazi V-weapons to hydrogen bombs, investigative journalist I.F. Stone once described arms races as the inevitable product of there being “no limit...

AI Competition With China Should Be Done the American Way
With much of the national security community’s attention now turned to long-term competition with China, the race to sustain the United States’ global leadership position in science and technology has...

Artificial Intelligence Is Strengthening the U.S. Navy From Within
The Navy is progressively phasing artificial intelligence (AI) into its ship systems, weapons, networks, and command and control infrastructure as computer automation becomes more reliable and advanced algorithms make once-impossible...