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ai with ai: Just the Tip of the Skyborg

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including the first flight of a drone equipped with the Air Force’s Skyborg autonomy core system. The UK Office for AI publishes a new set of guidance on automated decision-making in government, with Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Framework for Automated Decision-Making. The International Red Cross calls for new international rules on how governments use autonomous weapons. Senators introduce two AI bills to improve the US’s AI readiness, with the AI Capabilities and Transparency Act and the AI for the Military Act. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin lays out his vision for the Department of Defense in his first major speech, stressing the importantance of emerging technology and rapid increases in computing power. A report from the Allen Institute for AI shows that China is closing in on the US in AI research, expecting to become the leader in the top 1% of most-cited papers in 2023. In research, Ziming Liu and Max Tegmark introduce AI Poincaré, an algorithm that auto-discovers conserved quantities using trajectory data from unknown dynamics systems. Researchers enable a paralyzed man to “text with his thoughts,” reaching 16 words per minute. The Stimson Center publishes A New Agenda for US Drone Policy and the Use of Lethal Force. The Onlife Manifesto: Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era, first published in 2015, is available for open access. And Cade Metz publishes Genius Makers, with stories of the pioneers behind AI.

of guidance on automated decision-making in government, with Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Framework for Automated Decision-Making. The International Red Cross calls for new international rules ... on Autonomous Weapons Speech given by Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC The International Committee of the Red Cross as guardian of international humanitarian law ICRC position and background paper (mentioned in Maurer’s letter) Two AI Bills introduced To Boost AI-Ready National Security Personnel & Increase Transparency Artificial Intelligence Capabilities and Transparency Act

Japan’s New Fleet Information Warfare Command Creates Opportunities for the US Navy

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The Fleet Information Warfare Command launched in March upgrades Japan’s capabilities and improves potential information warfare integration with the US Navy.

security and advanced technology data. Using artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and other technologies, China is pursuing cognitive advantages through “intelligentized warfare.”  In response ... for interoperability between US and Japanese forces is no coincidence but part of a growing trend of Tokyo pursuing international military collaboration. As tensions in the Indo-Pacific rise, including in its

Japan’s F-35B Sea Trials Aim to Boost Interoperability with US, Partner Navies

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Successful tests of the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter on a Japanese ship bring Japan closer to a future of close collaboration with the US Navy and Marine Corps.

/F-35B-on-JS-Kaga-metaimage.jpg Brian Waidelich and Darlene Onuorah Brian Waidelich is a Research Scientist with CNA's Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Program . He is currently deployed to Strike Group Five in Yokosuka, Japan, as part of the CNA Field Program . Darlene Onuorah is an Associate Research Analyst with CNA's Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Program . On November 6, the Japan Maritime ... the country’s potential adversaries. The three major security documents released by Tokyo in late 2022 spelled out plans to increase the country’s defense budget and develop “counterstrike” capabilities

NATO’s Navies at 75: Five Operational Imperatives to Watch

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At NATO’s 75th anniversary, its navies are investing in five critical areas: surface ships, air defense, antisubmarine warfare, uncrewed platforms, and logistics.

sophisticated submarine fleet poses the most substantial security threat in the European maritime domain. Ongoing NATO investments in antisubmarine warfare (ASW) capabilities should therefore be followed ... in Pacific operations. Although NATO as an alliance is unlikely to operate in the Pacific for political reasons, several individual NATO navies are important bolsters to international order in the region

All In on Africa

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Kaia Haney examines the Biden Administration’s recent diplomacy in Africa and how it ties into strategic competition on the continent.

as the Biden administration is still working to counter China and Russia’s respective influences across Africa. As Gilles Yabi, a nonresident scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ... strong political, military and security ties with many African nations. Experts like Paul Nantulya, a research associate with the African Center for Strategic Studies, emphasize that Africa will only

What Did the Summit of The Americas Accomplish?

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The Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles exposed rocky U.S. relations with Latin America, due to regional turmoil and U.S. paralysis, writes Ralph Espach.

is an expert on inter-American security relations, especially regarding Central America and Brazil, the security implications of climate change, and security cooperation. Earlier this month ... — and a confusing agreement among 20 nations’ leaders to accept more foreign refugees and migrants in exchange for international assistance. Summits of the Americas do not generally create action . Still ... to consider a region that, for now, poses no clear strategic or security threat (aside from the narcotics flows and spreading dictatorships, for which it has ongoing — failing — strategies in place

Beyond Pessimism: Three Paths to Progress in U.S.-Russia Relations

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Julian Waller examines how President Biden and President Putin can further U.S.-Russia relations at their upcoming summit, in the shadow of Ukraine.

on January 10. A January 12 session of the NATO-Russia Council and a January 13 meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have also ... . Arms Control as a Bright Point in a Dour International Environment Finally, while the first two areas of potential progress can be fundamentally characterized as process-based (that is, talking

Law Enforcement Innovates for the New Normal

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Law enforcement agencies have moved quickly to implement a wide range of practices to protect personnel and the public during this pandemic.

globally: screening for symptoms and fevers before shifts, supplying facemasks and gloves. Of the 989 members of the International Association of Chiefs of Police who responded to a recent survey ... for confirmed COVID-19 cases. These addresses can be used to alert emergency responders to take extra precautions, but the information must be held under tight security. The sharing of such addresses

cna talks: North Korea-U.S. Summit

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In an excellent primer on the current state of affairs between North Korea and the United States, CNA experts  Ken Gause ,  Sarah Vogler  and  Christopher Steinitz  discuss the June 12 summit and how the regime's objectives changed in the years and months leading up to it. They believe that Kim Jong Un's 2018 New Year’s Day speech indicated a shift from a brinkmanship to an engagement posture, as well as a shift in focus from the nuclear program to economic progress. They explain how Kim’s strategic calculus differs from his father's, what is at stake for the regime and its legitimacy, and North Korea's uneasy relationships with South Korea, China, and the United States.

of the International Affairs Group, a part of CNA's Center for Strategic Studies. He is CNA's senior foreign leadership analyst and has spent the last 20 years developing methodologies for examining ... strategic calculus and decision-making in North Korea, North Korean command and control, and U.S. security policy in Northeast Asia. Vogler has also worked on issues related to adversary approaches

ai with ai: D/Generative

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In COVID-related news, Nature publishes a review of COVID-19 AI tools, emphasizing that most tools are still in development and largely unproven. Inserm selects Expert System's AI support for its COVID-19 research and its group of over 10,000 researchers. Researchers provide in open-source a large annotated dataset of CT and X-ray images from COVID-19 patients, called the BIMCV COVID-19+. In regular AI news, Microsoft announces that it will not sell its facial recognition technology to police departments in the US until a national law is in place to help govern its use. On that note, a new federal bill in development, the Justice in Policing Act, contains policy guidelines on the use and limitations of facial recognition technology for police. OpenAI releases a commercial product API for accessing its AI models, to include the 175B parameter GPT-3, although other researchers are expressing concern over the lack of accountability on bias. Facebook announces the winner of its Deepfake Challenge, where the winning model achieved at 65% accuracy on a set of 10,000 previously unseen clips. And Boston Dynamics makes its robot dog, Spot, available for sale at $74,500 plus tax. In research, a team at Duke University introduces PULSE, which sharpens blurry images, in essence by exploring the space of plausible high-res images that could result in the blurry image. The report of the week comes from Perry World House, who published the results of a Policy Roundtable on AI hosted last fall. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the International Committee of the Red Cross offer their take on Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems, by identifying the practical elements of human control. The review of the week from University of Waterloo provides an overview of text detection and recognition in the wild. MacroPolo provides a snapshot of Global AI Talent, using participants from the 2019 NeurIPS. Spring-Verlag provides yet another free text, from Eiben and Smith, on an Introduction to Evolutionary Computing. And NavyCon 2020 provides brief snapshots on "navies, science fiction, and great power competition" from a host of participants.

(includes using own images) Andy and Dave Pulsed Reports of the Week Policy Roundtable: Artificial Intelligence and International Security Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems:   Identifying ... of the week comes from Perry World House, who published the results of a Policy Roundtable on AI hosted last fall. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the International Committee