Artificial Intelligence
Commerce Secretary Antagonizes Chip Manufacturers Amid Conflicting AI Messaging
At the Reagan National Defense Forum last month, United States Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo gave seemingly conflicting statements on the purpose of AI regulation, her stance on the U.S. relationship...
Biden’s AI “Collaboration” With Europe Will Hurt Innovation
Last week, President Joe Biden unveiled an executive order that marks the beginning of a U.S. regulatory path for artificial intelligence. The order is a prelude to forming a U.S....
Understanding AI in an Era of Great Power Politics
As cyberattacks grow exponentially—an insecure computer can suffer 2,000 attacks per day—Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now imperative to deal with the massive volume of breaches. Yet, it seems that AI...
An Autonomous Osprey MK III Just Passed a Key Military Test
In a quiet July experiment, engineers at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, launched a small unmanned plane and told it to break the rules. The plane, an Osprey MK III, was...
Will AI Targeting Make Tank Gunners Obsolete?
Beneath the surface of its well-known and highly visible large-scale combat platforms such as the Abrams tank and Stryker, General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) has more quietly pursued an intense...
The New AI Bill of Rights Needs to Go Bigger
After a year full of ideas exchanges and meetings with tech companies, leaders, and artificial intelligence (AI) experts, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House...
Will the Army Turn Artificial Intelligence Against Its Enemies?
Beyond the visible ways in which new technologies are changing the nature of conflict, there is a less obvious, yet equally impactful, conceptual and doctrinal shift taking place. Newer technologies...
What if Machine Learning Is Less Than It Seems?
Artificial intelligence (AI)—particularly its most famous iteration, machine learning—has been hailed as the next game-changing technology for military affairs in the lineage of gunpowder, the combustion engine, and the airplane. One...
Big Data and AI Can Defend Democracy—Or Destroy It
Today’s world is full of sensors, and the higher your nation-state is on the advanced-industrial food chain, the more likely it is that you carry a sensor on your person...
Can Data Integration Help the U.S. Fight at the Speed of Light?
The Pentagon is accelerating its efforts to uncover paradigm-changing technologies and quickly get promising systems onto the battlefield. Given the integrated nature of warfare, development and prototyping efforts need to...
The U.S. Military Is Already Building the AI of Tomorrow
The commanding general of the Air Force Research Lab is already thinking about the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool that could not only engage in database...
Report: Record Numbers of Americans Are Buying Smart Speakers
According to the NPD Group’s Evolving Ecosystem Report, purchases of smart speakers have risen nearly 40 percent since 2020. On top of that, the use of home automation products has...