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Five Core Strategies of Smart Policing

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The Smart Policing Initiative makes law enforcement more effective and efficient by pairing researchers with practitioners for evidence-based policing strategies.

a randomized controlled trial, the researchers ensured the findings were robust and data-driven, providing valuable insights for advancing evidence-based policing practices. Strategic Targeting. Through analysis, SPI focuses on the small percentage of people and places responsible for a large proportion of crime, aiming to improve public safety impacts. The Chronic Offender Recognition and Enforcement ... the initiative achieved individual-level deterrence and reduced victimization. Making Better Use of Intelligence and Other Data and Information Systems. SPI enhances crime analysis capabilities

Unique Challenges of Wildfire Cleanups Confront Los Angeles

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The debris removal process after the wildfires in Los Angeles could benefit from lessons learned by CNA in after-action reviews from previous wildfire cleanups.

wildfires are mostly contained for the moment, but CNA analysis of previous fire disasters suggests that a surprisingly difficult and potentially hazardous effort lies ahead: debris removal. Previous CNA ... that the jurisdictions opted to create a debris task force to develop a unified strategic effort among federal, state, and local partners. While stakeholders viewed the existence of debris task forces ... the dangers of cleaning debris before county inspection , providing survivors with vital situational awareness. Previous CNA analysis of disaster zones has highlighted the importance of clear, multi-lingual

Protecting Civilians in Gaza Requires Not Just a Will, but a Way

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The U.S. can help Israel reduce civilian casualties in Gaza with advice on civilian harm mitigation in military operations, using lessons from Iraq, etc.

to civilians by 20 percent in the first year. And analysis by CNA showed that US advising on civilian harm mitigation to the Saudi-led coalition during operations in Yemen led to a 30 percent reduction ... mitigation, learning, and adaptation. Advisors could identify ways the United States could directly provide information, analysis, and technical capabilities to improve Israel’s ability to mitigate harm ... harm has increasingly become a strategic challenge to military operations. It can undercut security by damaging legitimacy and alliances. Adversaries exploit civilian casualties in their fundraising

China’s Belt and Road Loses a Notch and Gains a Bump

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Elizabeth Wishnick explains how the Russia-Ukraine war has affected China’s Belt and Road Initiative and hurt China’s relationships in Central Europe.

support for their strategic partner, Russia. Just before the invasion, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appeared to have more promising prospects in Central Europe. On February 3 rd , Xi Jinping ... the consequences of a protracted violent conflict. While an analysis by China’s Daily Economic News sought to downplay the impact of the war on most Chinese investments, Ukraine was described as one ... . Now boasting the world’s largest navy, with a fleet of 355 vessels, China faces a strategic choice between positioning itself as a continental power or as a maritime power. Naval historian Bruce

Wrong War, Right Weapons: Lessons for the Next Conflict

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Precision-guided munitions contributed to Desert Storm’s sweeping success, but were developed for an adversary and battlefield nothing like the one faced in the Persian Gulf.

% of the operation was the shaping and destruction of targets including air defense, Iraqi forces and facilities, and strategic targets. With the availability of precision weapons, smaller but valuable ... networks, allowing greater freedom of action for the rest of the campaign. Laser-guided bombs also proved highly effective. CNA analysis calculated a 60% hit rate for these precision weapons against ... as the Department of Defense tries to implement the Third Offset? This strategic turn began in 2014. Acknowledging that great power competitors had caught up in much Second Offset technology and had

cna talks: Foreign Policy Advice for the New Administration

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In light of this month’s presidential transition, six CNA analysts sat down to discuss foreign policy advice for the next administration. From Asia to Europe to the Middle East, the commentators covered some of the key areas of concern for the upcoming year and beyond. Topics included: North Korea’s nuclear capabilities Russia’s relationships with NATO, Syria and Turkey The Iran nuclear deal Chinese national interests The South China Sea Cyber threats Listen in for informed analysis on China, North Korea, Russia and more.

relationships with NATO, Syria and Turkey The Iran nuclear deal Chinese national interests The South China Sea Cyber threats Listen in for informed analysis on China, North Korea, Russia and more ... analyzing Russia’s military and foreign policy and is an expert on security issues in the former Soviet Union. Alexander Alden, a CNA analyst, is an expert in strategic planning, defense policy, deterrence and assurance, military modernization, arms transfers, security cooperation, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Related Materials CNA’s   Strategic Studies division CNA’s   China Studies

ai with ai: A Mind Forever Voyaging Part 2

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OpenAI has trained an unsupervised language model that can perform basic reading comprehension, summarize text, answer questions, and generate coherent paragraphs; as Andy and Dave discuss, the bigger news came from OpenAI's decision to release a less-capable version of the GPT-2 model, "for the good of humanity," as one news site claimed. IBM's Project Debater lost a debate with champion debater Harish Natarajan, but more of the audience said Project Debater better enriched their knowledge on the topic. Princeton and Microsoft announce NAIL, an agent for playing general interactive fiction (such as the Zork series), and consisting of multiple Decision Modules for performing various tasks. Columbia University takes a step toward reconstructing speech directly from the brain's auditory cortex, by temporarily placing electrodes in patients and having them listen to spoken numbers. DARPA announces SAIL-ON, the Science of Artificial Intelligence and Learning for Open-world Novelty, in an attempt to help AI adapt to constantly changing conditions. DARPA's Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) promises $7.6M to the Center for Open Science, for leading the charge on reproducibility. The Animal-AI Olympics hopes to create a survival-of-the-fittest for AI approach to the animal kingdom. Facebook releases ELF OpenGo, an open-source implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero. Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve discover an entirely new form of neural communication that works through electrical fields and can function over gaps in severed tissues. The Nufffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence released a report on the Ethical and Societal Implications of Algorithms, Data, and AI. Technology for Global Security and Center for Global Security and Research join forces to understand and manage risks to international security and warfare, as posed by AI-related tech. A short review in Science looks at brain circuitry and learning, and Andy pulls DeepMind's look at Neuroscience-inspired AI paper from 2017. Research examines engineering-based design methodology for embedding ethics in autonomous robots, while another paper assesses the local interpretability of machine learning methods. Jeff Erickson releases a textbook on Algorithms; Daniel Shiffman publishes The Nature of Code; and Jason Brownlee offers up Clever Algorithms – Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes. A video from This Week in Machine Learning and AI dissects the controversy surrounding OpenAI's GPT-2 model. And finally, two websites offer up faces of fictional people.

) ELF OpenGo: An Analysis and Open Reimplementation of AlphaZero Github Neuroscientists Say They've Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication Nontechnical overview ... partnership Artificial Intelligence and the Military: Forever Altering Strategic Stability AI Roundtable Discussion (Workshop Summary, June 2018) Considering AI on the Battlefield (White Paper, June 2018) Assessing Strategic Effects of AI (Workshop Summary, September 2018) Papers of the Week (Science) Using neuroscience to develop artificial intelligence (DeepMind

ai with ai: A Mind Forever Voyaging Part 1

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OpenAI has trained an unsupervised language model that can perform basic reading comprehension, summarize text, answer questions, and generate coherent paragraphs; as Andy and Dave discuss, the bigger news came from OpenAI's decision to release a less-capable version of the GPT-2 model, "for the good of humanity," as one news site claimed. IBM's Project Debater lost a debate with champion debater Harish Natarajan, but more of the audience said Project Debater better enriched their knowledge on the topic. Princeton and Microsoft announce NAIL, an agent for playing general interactive fiction (such as the Zork series), and consisting of multiple Decision Modules for performing various tasks. Columbia University takes a step toward reconstructing speech directly from the brain's auditory cortex, by temporarily placing electrodes in patients and having them listen to spoken numbers. DARPA announces SAIL-ON, the Science of Artificial Intelligence and Learning for Open-world Novelty, in an attempt to help AI adapt to constantly changing conditions. DARPA's Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) promises $7.6M to the Center for Open Science, for leading the charge on reproducibility. The Animal-AI Olympics hopes to create a survival-of-the-fittest for AI approach to the animal kingdom. Facebook releases ELF OpenGo, an open-source implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero. Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve discover an entirely new form of neural communication that works through electrical fields and can function over gaps in severed tissues. The Nufffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence released a report on the Ethical and Societal Implications of Algorithms, Data, and AI. Technology for Global Security and the Center for Global Security and Research join forces to understand and manage risks to international security and warfare, as posed by AI-related tech. A short review in Science looks at brain circuitry and learning, and Andy pulls DeepMind's look at Neuroscience-inspired AI paper from 2017. Research examines engineering-based design methodology for embedding ethics in autonomous robots, while another paper assesses the local interpretability of machine learning methods. Jeff Erickson releases a textbook on Algorithms; Daniel Shiffman publishes The Nature of Code; and Jason Brownlee offers up Clever Algorithms – Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes. A video from This Week in Machine Learning and AI dissects the controversy surrounding OpenAI's GPT-2 model. And finally, two websites offer up faces of fictional people.

OpenGo: An Analysis and Open Reimplementation of AlphaZero Github Neuroscientists Say They've Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication Nontechnical overview Technical ... partnership Artificial Intelligence and the Military: Forever Altering Strategic Stability AI Roundtable Discussion (Workshop Summary, June 2018) Considering AI on the Battlefield (White Paper, June 2018) Assessing Strategic Effects of AI (Workshop Summary, September 2018) Papers of the Week (Science) Using neuroscience to develop artificial intelligence (DeepMind

ai with ai: Detective Centaur and the Curse of Footstep Awareness

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Andy and Dave didn’t have time to do a short podcast this week, so they did a long one instead. In breaking news, they discuss the establishment of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), yet another-Tesla autopilot crash, Geurts defending the decision to dissolve the Navy’s Unmanned Systems Office, and Germany published a paper that describes its stance on autonomy in weapon systems. Then, Andy and Dave discuss DeepMind’s approach to using YouTube videos to train an AI to learn “hard exploration games” (with sparse rewards). In another “centaur” example, facial recognition experts form best when combined with an AI. University of Manchester researchers announce a new footstep-recognition AI system, but Dave pulls a Linus and has a fit of “footstep awareness.” In other recent reports, Andy and Dave discuss another example of biomimicry, where researchers at ETH Zurich have modeled the schooling behavior of fish. And in brain-computer interface research, a noninvasive BCI system co-trained with tetraplegics to control avatars in a racing game. Finally, they round out the discussion with a mention of ZAC Inc and its purported general AI, a book on How People and Machines are Smarter Together, and a video on deep reinforcement learning.

was in 'autopilot' mode, California official says (May 24) Follow-up to last episode: ASN (RD&A)   Geurts defends decision to dissolve unmanned systems office Department of the Navy Strategic Unmanned ... ) Powerful new footstep-recognition AI system Reference:   Analysis of Spatio-temporal Representations for Robust Footstep Recognition with Deep Residual Neural Networks ... learning PNAS paper (paywall) Beautiful analysis of fine-scale collective behavior of wild white stork migration with equally elegant figures Image of the Day:   Ornithologists tagged 27

Israel’s New Government is the Most Far-Right in its History

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San Plapinger examines how Benjamin Netanyahu’s new hardline government could impact the country’s relations with Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE.

and Intelligence Program . His work focuses on strategic competition, irregular warfare, fleet operations and Middle East security issues. From 2020 to 2022, Samuel served as the embedded CNA field representative to the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, conducting research and analysis for the senior U.S. Navy commander in the Middle East. On December 29, 2022