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More Battlefield AI Will Make the Fog of War More Deadly
The United States military is not the unrivaled force it once was, but Alexandr Wang, CEO of startup Scale AI,…
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UFO Whistleblower, Meet a Conspiracy-Loving Congress
Gillibrand is sponsoring an amendment she hopes to attach to this year’s must-pass National Defense Authorization Act to mandate that…
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Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine
Schmidt became CEO of Google in 2001, when the search engine had a few hundred employees and was barely making money.…
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Google and Amazon Workers Protest Military Cloud Contracts
Chandravongsri’s parents were born in Laos, where he still has extended family. He has seen first-hand how CIA-led bombing campaigns…
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This Group Pushed More AI in US Security—and Boosted Big Tech
Beyond Schmidt and Jassy, members included Andrew Moore, Google’s head of cloud AI; Safra Catz, co-CEO of Oracle; Eric Horvitz,…
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The Pentagon Is Bolstering Its AI Systems—by Hacking Itself
The Pentagon sees artificial intelligence as a way to outfox, outmaneuver, and dominate future adversaries. But the brittle nature of…
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The Pentagon Scrubs a Cloud Deal and Looks to Add More AI
Late in 2019, the Pentagon chose Microsoft for a $10 billion contract called JEDI that aimed to use the cloud…
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The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons
Last August, several dozen military drones and tank-like robots took to the skies and roads 40 miles south of Seattle.…
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As China Rises, the US Builds Toward a Bigger Role in AI
For decades, the US government has let the private sector and the free market do their thing, betting this is…
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Trump Could Torpedo a Bill to Boost Funding for AI
Over a tumultuous four years, the Trump administration has steadily emphasized the importance of artificial intelligence to American competitiveness. Now…
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