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Artificial Intelligence in Russia Issue 21

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CNA provides information and analysis of the field of civilian and military AI in Russia and how Russia is applying AI to its military capabilities. Issue 21.

ecosystem, divided into the following sections: Governance and Legal Developments Military and Security Developments Corporate and Market Developments Education and Training Developments International Collaboration Spotlight: Russian Military Establishment Discusses AI The following preview shows the first item in this issue: 1. Putin orders new mechanisms ... factors in national security, and ordered the development of a new state program on science and technology. He instructed the government to prepare and adopt this new state program. At the same time, he

Chinas Improving Foreign Directed Media

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Over the last 15 years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has conducted an ambitious campaign to increase the efficacy of its external propaganda. Drawing from primary Chinese languages sources, this study identifies and traces the origins of the overarching objectives of these efforts. In addition, it outlines the concrete steps that Beijing has taken to date to strengthen Chinese foreign-directed media. Using translated professional journals, the study also analyzes how Chinese subject matter experts in their own words assess Beijing’s successes and shortcomings in improving the reach and resonance of China’s external propaganda. This research was conducted on behalf of the US Indo-Pacific Command’s China – Strategic Focus Group in support of USINDOPACOM requirements.

security interests internationally. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to strengthen Chinese external propaganda have several implications: The international information environment ... drivers, including: A Chinese perception that Beijing needs a greater international voice commensurate with the country’s growing international status. The CCP’s recognition that its external ... bias in Western journalism. The CCP’s efforts to improve its China’s foreign-directed media have three broad objectives, including: Increasing the international influence of China’s principal

Promoting Civilian Protection during Security Assistance

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For four years, the United States provided the Saudi-led coalition with military equipment and assistance used in its campaign in Yemen. During that time, the US has wrestled with and debated both the legality and wisdom of its support. After four years of conflict in Yemen, the US should be asking: what lessons can be learned from four years of support to the Saudi-led coalition? In light of the significant civilian protection concerns seen in Yemen, is there a way to get better outcomes from security assistance activities? This report aims to answer those questions. We analyze US support to the Saudi-led coalition and identify two gaps in policy and information, respectively. We also examine the timely issue of better protecting health care in the midst of armed conflict. In this report, we provide a policy framework for including civilian protection considerations as part of security assistance.

Promoting Civilian Protection during Security Assistance Promoting Civilian Protection during Security Assistance: Learning from Yemen For four years, the United States provided the Saudi-led ... , is there a way to get better outcomes from security assistance activities? This report aims to answer those questions. We analyze US support to the Saudi-led coalition and identify two gaps in policy ... considerations as part of security assistance. For four years, the United States provided the Saudi-led coalition with military equipment and assistance used in its campaign in Yemen. During

State of Russian Chinese Defense Cooperation

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In this CNA Occasional Paper, Russian East Asia expert Vasily Kashin examines the current state of Russian-Chinese defense and security cooperation, Russia’s approach to developing it, and the possible outcomes of a further Russia-China rapprochement. He highlights the historical antecedents to the unprecedently long period of close ties between the two countries, focusing on the mutual advantages derived by both countries from defense industrial cooperation. The paper describes the gradually depending nature of bilateral military cooperation across a number of domains, including arms sales and joint exercises. The paper also addresses Russia’s evolving views on China’s increasing global role and the potential for an even closer Russia-China strategic alliance in the future, concluding that although the two countries are not ready for Western-style cooperation in defense technology, they are gradually moving toward a security partnership characterized by greater integration and interdependence.

of Russian-Chinese defense and security cooperation, Russia’s approach to developing it, and the possible outcomes of a further Russia-China rapprochement. He highlights the historical antecedents ... , they are gradually moving toward a security partnership characterized by greater integration and interdependence. Since the normalization of ties between Moscow and Beijing in 1989, defense and security cooperation has been the most important element of the bilateral relationship. For a long time, arms trade and dialogue about regional and border security were the only elements of the relationship

ai with ai: Tempus Fluit

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss research from Texas &AM, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and SNY Binghamton, which demonstrates an automatic system for monitoring the physical distance and face mask wearing of construction workers; demonstrating how surveillance is rapidly becoming a widely available commodity technology. In regular news, the National Security Commission on AI releases its draft final report, which makes sweeping recommendations on AI as a constellation of technologies. The nominee for Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks, mentions AI and the JAIC at several points during her testimony. The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation releases a report on “Who Is Winning the AI Race,” using 30 different metrics to assess nations’ progress in AI. Amnesty International launches a campaign against facial recognition, dubbed “Ban the Scan.” And Scatter Lab pulls its Korean chatbot Lee Luda, after it started responding with racist and sexist comments to user inputs. In three “quick” research items, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School show that single neurons can encode information about others’ beliefs. Researchers at MIT and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria introduce a new class of time-continuous recurrent neural network models, which they dub liquid time-constant networks; the approach reduces the size of networks by nearly two orders of magnitude for some tasks. And researchers at the University of Toronto, Microsoft Research, and Cornell University show that Maia, a custom version of AlphaZero, can learn to predict human actions, rather than the most likely winning move. The report of the week looks at The Immigration Preferences of Top AI Researchers. And the book of the week contains almost 40 chapters and 60 authors on a variety of special operations-related topics, in Strategic Latency Unleashed. Listener Survey

mask wearing of construction workers; demonstrating how surveillance is rapidly becoming a widely available commodity technology. In regular news, the National Security Commission on AI releases its ... International launches a campaign against facial recognition, dubbed “Ban the Scan.” And Scatter Lab pulls its Korean chatbot Lee Luda, after it started responding with racist and sexist comments to user ... “Just” AI National Security Commission on AI: Draft Final Report Report (130 Pages) Video Proceedings – Day 1 (3 hours) Video Proceedings – Day 1 (2.5 hours) AI comes up

ai with ai: Self-aware Bag of Atomic Camels

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For research topics, Andy and Dave discuss the task-agnostic self-modeling machine from Columbia University, a robotic arm that learns to build an approximate model of itself and then interact with the world; they also discuss the over-hyped reporting of the research. A much less hyped, but possibly more groundbreaking research from MIT results in a robot that can play the tower-block game Jenga, using multisensory fusion to do so. More research from MIT attempts to synthesize probabilistic programs for automatic data modeling. Research from the University of Tubingen shows that approximating convolutional neural nets with bag-of-local-features modeling yields decent results with ImageNet. And the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for AI announce the Atlas of Machine Commonsense (ATOMIC), a collection of 877k textual descriptions of inferential knowledge, which allows more accurate inference for previously unseen events. In announcements of the week, DARPA announces the Competency-Aware Machine Learning (CAML) program for ML systems to assess their own performance; and Measuring Biological Aptitude (MBA) attempts to link genotype to phenotype in order to improve recruiting, training, and other aspects. The U.S. Navy’s Sea Hunter drone ship completes an autonomous trip from San Diego to Hawaii and back. The "Papers with Code" archive attempts to collect and link ML-related papers, code, and evaluation tables. The U.S. Army activates its AI Task Force at Carnegie Mellon. And the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2019 has been announced for 6-9 May 2019. In media of the week, the World Intellectual Property Organization releases its report on the Technology Trends of 2019; the AMA Journal of Ethics publishes an entire (open-access) issue devoted to AI in health care; the Congressional Research Service updates its report on AI and National Security; Dan Simmons provides a hefty tome on Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms, and Julian Togelius publishes a book on Playing Smart. Wake Word is the Game of the Week, and in videos, Super Bowl ads provided a variety of glimpses into life with robots.

and link ML-related papers, code, and evaluation tables. The U.S. Army activates its AI Task Force at Carnegie Mellon. And the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2019 has been ... (open-access) issue devoted to AI in health care; the Congressional Research Service updates its report on AI and National Security; Dan Simmons provides a hefty tome on Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms ... ) "Papers With Code" archive "State of the Art AI" archive site "Papers with Code" archive site Carnegie Mellon Hosts Activation of U.S. Army AI Task Force International Conference

coming in from the cold: The Hermit Kingdom: The Rise of the Kim Dynasty

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Chung Min Lee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and returning guest Ken Gause join Bill to discuss the history of the Kim Dynasty in North Korea.

in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 2013 to 2016, he served as Ambassador for National Security Affairs for South Korea, and from 2010 to 2011 as Ambassador for International Security Affairs. He is the author of “The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un.” ContactName /*/Contact/ContactName ContactTitle /*/Contact/JobTitle ContactEmail ... 11 Chung Min Lee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and returning guest Ken Gause join Bill to discuss the history of the Kim Dynasty in North Korea. The Hermit Kingdom: The Rise

pla update: Issue 7, February 16, 2023

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PLA Update, Issue 7, is a CNA China Studies Program monthly newsletter, with summaries of Chinese media coverage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

on the internal and external affairs of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Each edition of this newsletter draws on the expertise of CNA’s China and Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Division to provide ... discusses international trends in the development and employment of capabilities in the deep sea, a “ new domain ” which the author defines as waters at depths of 200 meters and greater. Kuang argues that the deep sea is becoming an increasingly important battlespace for international military competition following technological advances such as artificial intelligence (AI) that are enabling

CNA Welcomes Christopher J. Wiernicki to Board of Trustees

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CNA recently announced that Christopher J. Wiernicki was elected to the CNA Board of Trustees.

. Wiernicki helped build ABS into an organization with more than 5,000 employees and increased its support to US government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security ... advisor and partner to marine businesses is a great fit with CNA’s expertise in the maritime component of national security.” “Objective, cutting-edge, and innovative research is the hallmark of both ... recognitions he has received include the International Maritime Hall of Fame, International Personality of the Year in Greek Shipping, United Seamen’s Service Admiral of the Ocean Seas Award

Russian Military Role in US-Russian Arms Control

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Russian nuclear policy and arms control decision-making is influenced by the General Staff’s Main Operational Directorate, military leaders, and bureaucrats.

in international arms control negotiations? What do Russian military stakeholders identify as the most salient challenges in future arms control negotiations with the US? Findings Russia's nuclear policy ... in Russia today. On the civilian side, the president and his administration, including through the Security Council, set overall political strategy and facilitate interagency coordination. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs focuses on diplomatic strategy and leads a delegation to international negotiations. In turn, intelligence officials, industry leaders, other political leaders, and civilian experts