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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.

Israel’s New Government is the Most Far-Right in its History San Plapinger examines how Benjamin Netanyahu’s new hardline government could impact the country’s relations with Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE. /images/InDepth/2023/BN-Resided.jpg Israel’s New Government is the Most Far-Right in its History Samuel Plapinger Samuel Plapinger is a Research Scientist with CNA’s Special Activities 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

What Qatar Wants from the World Cup

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Sam Plapinger examines what Qatar aimed to achieve by hosting the World Cup and whether a string of controversies has impacted these goals.

What Qatar Wants from the World Cup Sam Plapinger examines what Qatar aimed to achieve by hosting the World Cup and whether a string of controversies has impacted these goals. /images/InDepth/2022/12/Qatar-World-Cup-Copy.jpg What Qatar Wants from the World Cup Sam Plapinger Sam Plapinger is a Research Scientist with CNA’s Special Activities and Intelligence Program. At CNA, his work focuses on strategic competition, irregular warfare, fleet operations, and Middle East security issues. From 2020 to 2022, Sam served as the embedded CNA field representative to the commander of U.S. Naval Forces

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.

diplomacy ” in an effort to avoid antagonizing Beijing and to maintain what many Malaysians believe is a “ special relationship ” with China. Malaysia’s China policy has traditionally ... in the South China Sea. Kuala Lumpur has significant revenue-producing oil and gas operations in the South China Sea, much of which is within Chinese-claimed waters. Traditionally, Beijing has been

New Delhi and Washington's Defense Partnership

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As the United States and India conclude the third 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue this week, the results emerging from these meetings are notable, not just because of their substance, but because of their timing.

. The resulting change in the U.S.-India security relationship is broad. For many years, the U.S. has proposed Special Operations cooperation, a U.S.-India Defense Cyber Dialogue, the introduction

Thirteen COVID-19 Resources that Use Artificial Intelligence

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Andy Ilachinski and David Broyles, co-hosts of AI with AI, CNA's popular podcast on artificial intelligence, have compiled a timely, annotated list of AI developments and resources related to COVID-19.

Ilachinski is a principal research scientist for CNA's Special Activities and Intelligence program. He specializes in the mathematical and computer modeling of complex adaptive systems. He pioneered the application of agent-based modeling (ABM), and evolutionary programming techniques to military operations research problems, and developed two of the earliest ABMs of land warfare. Andy Ilachinski

Don’t Take the All-Volunteer Force for Granted

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Both experience and data tell us the all-volunteer force has resulted in the most experienced, best-educated, most qualified troops this country — and perhaps the world — has ever seen.

burden has fallen on some of the oldest, most experienced of the career enlisted forces — in special operations. Perhaps the most surprising benefit of the all-volunteer force has been

Five Myths About Cryptocurrencies

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The National Security Commission on AI solicits creative and original ideas to challenge the status quo assumptions on maintaining US global leadership in AI

majorities of the network — will be honest. To learn more, follow these links to the full reports: Cryptocurrencies: A Primer for Policy-Makers and Cryptocurrencies: Implications for Special Operations Forces . center

ai with ai: K9mm

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Welcome to Season 5.0 of AI with AI! Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including. The White House calls for an AI “bill of rights,” and invites comments for information. In its 4th year, Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth publish their State of AI Report, 2021. [1:50] OpenAI uses reinforcement learning from human feedback and recursive task decomposition to improve algorithms’ abilities to summarize books. [3:14] IEEE Spectrum publishes a paper that examines the diminishing returns of deep learning, questioning the long-term viability of the technology. [5:12] In related news, Nvidia and Microsoft release a 530 billion-parameter style language model, the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model (MT-NLG). [6:54] DeepMind demonstrates the use of a GAN in improving high-resolution precipitation “nowcasting.” [10:05] Researchers from Waterloo, Guelph, and IIT Madras publish research on deep learning that can identify early warning signals of tipping points. [11:54] Military robot maker Ghost Robots creates a robot dog with a rifle, the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle, or SPUR. [14:25] And Dr. Larry Lewis joins Dave and Andy to discuss the latest report from CNA on Leveraging AI to Mitigate Civilian Harm, which describes the causes of civilian harm in military operations, identifies how AI could protect civilians from harm and identifies ways to lessen the infliction of suffering, injury, and destruction overall. [16:36]

. [11:54] Military robot maker Ghost Robots creates a robot dog with a rifle, the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle, or SPUR. [14:25] And Dr. Larry Lewis joins Dave and Andy to discuss the latest report from CNA on Leveraging AI to Mitigate Civilian Harm, which describes the causes of civilian harm in military operations, identifies how AI could protect civilians from harm and identifies ways

ai with ai: XLand, Simulation of Sweet Adventures

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including a story from MIT Technology Review (which echoes observations made previously on AI with AI) that “hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch COVID. None of them helped.” DeepMind has used its AlphaFold program to identify the structure for 98.5 percent of roughly 20,000 human proteins, and will make the information publicly available. The Pentagon makes use of machine learning algorithms to create decision space in the latest of Global Information Dominance Experiments. An Australian court rules that AI systems can be “inventors” under patent law (but not “owners”), and South Africa issues the world’s first patent to an “AI System.” The United States Special Operations Command put 300 of its personnel through a unique six-week crash course in AI, including leaders such as Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former Defense Secretary Ash Carter. And President Biden nominates Stanford professor Ramin Toloui, who has experience with AI technologies and impacts, as an Assistant Secretary of State for business. In research, DeepMind develop agents capable of “open-ended learning” in XLand, an environment with diverse tasks and challenges. A survey from the Journal of AI Research finds that AI researchers have varying amounts of trust in different organizations, companies, and governments. The Journal of Strategic Studies dedicates an issue to Emerging Technologies, with free access. Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Johanna Hardin make an Introduction to Modern Statistics open access with an option (or with proceeds going to OpenIntro, a US-based nonprofit). And Iyad Rahwan curates a collection of evil AI cartoons.

be “inventors” under patent law (but not “owners”), and South Africa issues the world’s first patent to an “AI System.” The United States Special Operations Command put 300 of its personnel through a unique

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

of the Week Strategic Latency Unleashed: The Role of Technology in a Revisionist Global Order and the Implications for Special Forces Operations Book (581 page) ContactName /*/Contact ... almost 40 chapters and 60 authors on a variety of special operations-related topics, in Strategic Latency Unleashed. Listener Survey /images/AI-Posters/AI_4_17.jpg Tempus Fluit Announcements