Policy

42 Countries Agree to International Principles for AI

The Organisation for Economic Coordination and Development released its global standards, which aim to ensure artificial intelligence is designed to be robust, safe, fair and trustworthy.

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3 Lawmakers Propose $2.2B Over 5 Years to Advance AI

The Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act would devote resources to education and research, and help coordinate AI adoption across government.

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Moscow to Weave AI Face Recognition into Its Urban Surveillance Net

City authorities say the planned system will have access to all 160,000 existing cameras.

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The Push to ‘Predict’ Police Shootings

Tracking officers’ stress exposure and body-camera practices could help keep them from pulling the trigger.

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US Military Testing Whether Human Pilots Can Trust Robot Wingmen in a Dogfight

DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution program aims to find out — and so shape America’s future arsenal.

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Here's the US Navy’s Drone Tanker, on the Road

A test prototype of Boeing’s MQ-25 carrier-based refueling aircraft gets a ride to its test airfield.

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One Defense Agency is Building a Bot Army

And it's saving the department hundreds of thousands of work hours a year, a defense official said.

Ideas

Did Russia Just Concede a Need to Regulate Military AI?

After years of Kremlin efforts to derail international guidelines on militarized artificial intelligence, a national-security leader appeared to signal a new course.

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DARPA Seeks Space Robots to Repair Satellites

The robots would service military, government, and commercial spacecraft more than 22,000 miles above the Earth.

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AI Is Already Keeping Tabs on 1 Million Clearance Holders

Trusted Workforce 2.0 tools regularly scan a set of data sources for anomalies in the behaviors of more than a million federal and private workers.

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The Army Wants AI to Read Soldiers’ Minds

A new study from the Army Research Lab may help AI-infused weapons and tools better understand their human operators.

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DARPA Wants AI to Learn Language as Human Babies Do

The Pentagon’s research wing is funding efforts to build AI language systems that learn more like people and less like machines.

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Solving One of the Hardest Problems of Military AI: Trust

There are many gaps, and most won’t be solved by code but by conversation.

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The Newest AI-Enabled Weapon: ‘Deep-Faking’ Photos of the Earth

Step 1: Use AI to make undetectable changes to outdoor photos. Step 2: release them into the open-source world and enjoy the chaos.

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Without JEDI, Pentagon’s AI Efforts May Be Hindered

DOD won’t be able to fully harness AI unless it manages to build — or buy — a national-defense cloud.

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The Pentagon is ‘Absolutely Unapologetic’ About Pursuing AI-Powered Weapons

Much criticism of military AI projects is rooted in "grave misperceptions," say current and former defense officials.

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The US Military Is Creating the Future of Employee Monitoring

A new AI-enabled pilot project aims to sense “micro changes” in the behavior of people with top-secret clearances. If it works, it could be the future of corporate HR.

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‘This is Not About Me and Google,’ Says Dunford, Who Will Meet Execs Next Week

Artificial intelligence businesses in China help an authoritarian government and erode America’s military advantage, the Joint Chiefs chairman said.