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ai with ai: All Good Things

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For the final (for now?) episode of AI with AI, Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including a political declaration from the US Department of State on the responsible military use of AI and autonomy. NATO begins work on an AI certification standard. The IEEE introduces a new program that provides free access to AI ethics and governance standards. Reported in February, but performed in December, A joint Dept of Defense team performed 12 flight tests (over 17 hours) in which AI agents piloted Lockheed Martin’s X-62A VISTA, an F-16 variant. Andy provides a run-down of a large number of recent ChatGPT-related stories. Wolfram “explains” how ChatGPT works. Paul Scharre publishes Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of AI. And to come full circle, we began this podcast 6 years ago with the story of AlphaGo beating the world champion. So we close the podcast with news that a non-professional Go player, Kellin Pelrine, beat a top AI system 14 games to one having discovered a ‘not super-difficult method for humans to beat the machines. A heartfelt thanks to you all for listening over the years!

military use of AI and autonomy. NATO begins work on an AI certification standard. The IEEE introduces a new program that provides free access to AI ethics and governance standards. Reported in February ... Good Things Announcements / News U.S. Dept. of State Releases Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of AI and Autonomy What does this all mean? Video – REAIM 2023 REAIM 2023 ... : Press Release DARPA: Press Release Video Breaking Defense: Additional details and history of VISTA ChatGPT is here to stay, Microsoft and Google join the Fray, and it’s Getting Scary

What is a Chinese Communist Party Plenum?

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Plenums of the Central Committee help assess future directions for China. The Third Plenum on economic issues is of critical interest for US national security.

, Teresa Wright’s  Party and State in Post-Mao China  is an accessible book I have previously used to teach undergraduates. If you want a fuller history that examines both the Maoist Period ... means more than monitoring China’s military modernization. It also includes making sense of economic activities that have national security implications . The upcoming July plenum will certainly

The AUKUS Submarine Agreement

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President Biden announced the creation of a new trilateral defense partnership to develop a nuclear-powered submarine fleet for Australia between the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, called AUKUS.

increasing military power and aggressive behavior and intimidation in the Indo-Pacific region is viewed as the most likely reason behind Australia’s decision to acquire nuclear submarines ... has been swift and furious. Two days after AUKUS was announced, France recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia for the first time in its diplomatic history with the two

China, Malaysia and the South China Sea

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On June 1, the Royal Malaysian Air Force announced that 16 People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) aircraft, flying in “tactical formation,” had entered Malaysia's Flight Information Region.

maneuvers is evidence of a shifting policy toward China in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia has a history of bureaucratic disjointedness on the South China Sea issue, and because Malaysia’s foreign ministry ... compromising its South China Sea claims, it is unclear how long Kuala Lumpur can continue to strike this balance. If Chinese military and paramilitary activities within Malaysia’s claimed Exclusive Economic

Global Issues Beckon Japan’s New Prime Minister

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When Yoshihide Suga succeeded Shinzo Abe as Japan’s prime minister on September 14, many observers anticipated a shift in the government’s focus. Will Suga be pulled in two directions?

in Japanese history — has proven Suga incomparable when it comes to managing and deftly orchestrating the vast and powerful Japanese bureaucracy. Suga has already signaled his reform agenda. His initial ... threats emanating from North Korea and increasing Chinese military incursions into Japanese national airspace and territorial waters. Compounding these challenges is the strategic distrust between

Washington Takes a Stand in the South China Sea

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In 2020, a senior U.S. government official used blunt language to publicly accuse Beijing of making unlawful maritime claims, and Washington finally began punishing companies that assist in China’s illegal island building.

several major projects related to maritime disputes in the East and South China Seas and China's ambition to become a "great" maritime power. This summer was a very important period in the history ... possess no territorial sea or EEZ. A fourth objective was to adopt as its own the Obama administration’s hard line against military base development on Scarborough Shoal. In early 2016, Scarborough

ai with ai: D.E.R.Y.L.

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In news, Andy and Dave discuss a machine learning algorithm from Synergies Intelligent System and Universität Hamburg that can identify people in a moving crowd who are mostly likely asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19. US lawmakers have introduced the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act, to boost privacy protections for COVID-19 technology such as tracing apps and vaccine scheduling apps. A team led by researchers from Oxford have introduced new reporting guidelines to bridge a gap in development to implementation when using clinical AI technologies, dubbed DECIDE-AI. Over 30 authors from a wide swath of organizations have proposed a “living benchmark” to evaluate progress in natural language generation, which they call GEM (Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics). And the combination we saw coming, research from Queen Mary University demonstrate a deep learning framework for detection of emotion using wireless signals. Researchers at the University of Virginia claim to detect physiological responses to racial bias with 76.1% accuracy, though it more focuses on exploring any link between mental associations of skin color. In research, Stanford researchers explore how learning and evolution occur in complex environments, and how they affect the diversity of morphological forms, with DERL (Deep Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning). Researchers from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, introduce GANs for editing images via their latent space, which provides greater control over editing (e.g., editing a mouth without re-generating the entire face). And in the video of the week, a 12-minute video provides a short history on DARPA with highlights on many of its military robot programs. Listener Survey

of the week, a 12-minute video provides a short history on DARPA with highlights on many of its military robot programs. Listener Survey /images/AI-Posters/AI_4_18.jpg D.E.R.Y.L. Announcements / News

CNA Analysts Share How 9/11 Impacted Their Careers

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Eight CNA analysts share the stories of how the events of September 11, 2001, shaped their careers.

of enlisting in the military, I decided to find another way to serve and support my country. The next semester, I enrolled in my first international affairs class. I changed my minor to political science ... command. One of my various analysis projects included tracing and reconstructing the history of a piece of the World Trade Center, which reminded me of why I first pursued and have remained ... was supposed to replace at the billet, to work with the strike team. So started a two-year blur of a tour that gave me a front-row seat to two momentous events. Very rarely can a person say they watched history

cna talks: Finland and Sweden's NATO Accession

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In this episode, Dmitry Gorenburg and Steve Wills join John Stimpson. They discuss Finland and Sweden’s NATO accession and what it means for the alliance and for Russia.

, the Russian military, Russian foreign policy, and ethnic politics and identity. He is also an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies at Harvard University. Twitter: @russmil Steve Wills is a Research Scientist with CNA’s Strategy and Policy Analysis Program. As a Navy historian, his research interests include the history of U.S. Navy strategy development over the Cold War

story-of-cna

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of government,” he says, influencingdecisions on the Littoral Combat Ship, aircraft carriers and Zumwalt-class destroyers. The Story of CNA66 The link between CNA’s history of military operations ... Did. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999. References 73Bob Sheldon, “Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Oral History Project Interview of Dr. Phil E. DePoy.” Military Operations ... given of their time to share with me their stories — in person, on the phone and by email — of their years at this organization. Some of them are not mentioned by name in the short history