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CNA: A Cultural Revolution Empowering Business Transformation

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CNA Chief Information Officer Rizwan Jan is fostering a collaborative culture to drive innovation, efficiency, and cybersecurity.

, he has taken on "a more strategic role in shaping the organisation's approach to data management, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning". This is especially important, as technologies like Generative AI are already having a marked impact on the cybersecurity landscape. A holistic business transformation integrating culture with security ... transformation." Embracing new technologies and digital tools often requires a shift in mindset, behaviour, and habits, and the change needs to take place from the bottom up across the organisation. Jan

Belt and Road Initiative 3.0: Mixed Messages from Beijing

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Belt and Road Initiative 10-year anniversary forum promoted a leaner, greener, “smarter” Belt and Road. But Putin’s prominent role highlighted global divisions.

on infrastructure and fossil fuels, which had attracted critical attention, Xi outlined an eight-point plan explaining how BRI 3.0 will prioritize digital connectivity, emerging technologies, and new energy. These new priorities nevertheless raise concerns in recipient countries about potential People’s Republic of China control over data and the environmental costs of developing new energy technologies ... on the Northern Sea Route , the waterway that spans Russia’s Arctic coast, not the “Polar Silk Road,” the term favored by China to depict an emerging trade route from northeast China to Europe

The China and Indo-Pacific Economic Statecraft Initiative

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CIP’s Economic Statecraft Initiative (ESI) analyzes and tracks China's efforts to use economic resources to exert influence overseas in pursuit of its national objectives.

is a CNA limited-series news digest describing the interplay between the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) technology acquisitions efforts and the emerging and critical technology risks for the US ... security implications of the PRC's economic statecraft activities for the United States. Research and analysis includes: Analytic support to investment screening Examination of emerging PRC laws ... successfully obtained foreign defense technologies using a range of legal economic tools. Obtaining these technologies advances China’s national security goals, and undermines the security and commercial

Golden Dome, Nuclear Modernization, and Arms Control: Can the Administration Have It All?

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President Trump is simultaneously pursuing the Golden Dome missile defense shield, nuclear modernization, and arms control—a challenging combination.

successful in achieving the goals of the Strategic Defense Initiative. However, advances in technologies aligned to the Golden Dome effort may lead to more progress in that priority area than Reagan ever ... Strategic Defense Initiative through to parts of Israel’s Iron Dome architecture—make US interceptors today more efficient and accurate—and cheaper. Advances in emerging technology, from artificial ... for nuclear modernization and rebuilding the US defense industrial base. It would need to integrate an unprecedented number of technologies and functions in networked systems. And as a shield, it is unlikely

Delivery Drones are Coming. Are We Ready?

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Controlling the airspace for small package delivery by drones or UAS requires planning that is informed by analysis and modeling with tools such as CNA’s UCATS™.

Rebekah Yang is a systems engineer in CNA’s Center for Data Management Analytics supporting the future integration of emerging technologies, such as UAS and artificial intelligence, for the FAA. Adam Monsalve is a systems engineer in CNA’s Center for Enterprise Systems Modernization specializing in the intersection of uncrewed technologies and cybersecurity for multiple federal government

ai with ai: Dr. GPT

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, starting with an education program from AI that teaches US Air Force personnel the fundamentals of AI across three types: leaders, developers, and users. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission unveils its draft Strategic Enforcement Plan to target AI-based hiring bias. The US Department of State establishes the Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology to bring “additional technology policy expertise, diplomatic leadership, and strategic direction to the Department’s approach to critical and emerging technologies.” Google calls in its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to help with the potential threat over ChatGPT and other AI technology. Researchers from Northwestern University publish research that demonstrates how ChatGPT can write fake research paper abstracts that can pass plagiarism checkers, and that human reviewers were only able to correctly identify 68% of the generated abstracts. Wolfram publishes an essay on a way to combine the computational powers of ChatGPT with Wolfram|Alpha. CheckPoint Research demonstrates how cybercriminals can use ChatGPT for nefarious exploits (to include people without any experience in generating malicious tools). Researchers at Carnegie Mellon demonstrate that full body tracking is now possible using only WiFi signals, with comparable performance to image-based approaches. Microsoft introduces VALL-E, a text-to-speech AI model that can mimic anyone’s voice with only three seconds of sample input. The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible AI is the book of the week, with numerous essays on the philosophical, ethical, legal, and societal challenges that AI brings; Cambridge has made the book open-access online. And finally, Sam Bendett joins for an update on the latest AI and autonomy-related information from Russia as well as Ukraine.

of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology to bring “additional technology policy expertise, diplomatic leadership, and strategic direction to the Department’s approach to critical and emerging technologies.” Google calls in its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to help with the potential threat over ChatGPT and other AI technology. Researchers from Northwestern University publish research ... U.S. Dept. of State Establishing Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology Q&A with Center Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight

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.

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 ... 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

ai with ai: Countering AI Classifiers, and Introducing Doubt to AI

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Andy and Dave discuss a newly announced method of attack on the speech-to-text capability DeepSpeech, which introduces noise to an audio waveform so that the AI does not hear the original message, but instead hears a message that the attacker intends. They also discuss the introduction of probabilistic models to AI as a way for AI to "embrace uncertainty" and make better decisions (or perhaps doubt whether or not humans should remain alive). And finally, Andy and Dave discuss some recent applications of AI to different areas of scientific study, particularly in the examination of very large data sets.

VIDEO Paul Scharre’s testimony before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities (9 Jan 2018): China’s Pursuit of Emerging and Exponential Technologies.   Watch

Dr. Adam Monsalve on Keeping Drone Traffic Communications Secure

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CNA systems engineer Adam Monsalve innovates to ensure that government can operate and regulate uncrewed aircraft systems safely and securely.

projects that explore new tools and approaches for addressing emerging national safety and security challenges.  These projects are showcased in the CNA Innovation Incubator (CNAi 2 ). From analyzing ... had to be low cost, something a public safety officer could actually implement, because they've got limited budgets for these types of technologies. We developed the concept for a little widget

Crime Analysts: Using Data to Make Communities Safer

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Crime analysts identify patterns, trends, and connections in vast datasets to help law enforcement. The crime analysis profession expands along with police data.

in enabling law enforcement to respond to emerging threats more efficiently. According to the Bureau of Justice Assistance in the Department of Justice, “Modern crime analysts utilize complex computer ... in the past 20 years. As technologies grow more sophisticated and information sharing increases rapidly, the role of crime analysis continues to grow with them. The federal government is also helping crime