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Weighing the Costs of War and Peace in Afghanistan

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The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad, tweeted that "peace requires agreement on four issues: counter-terrorism assurances, troop withdrawal."

, and a comprehensive ceasefire … We’re now ‘agreed in draft’ on the first two." This is a positive development, as previously the two sides had been only "agreed in principle." The next step is for both sides ... of the international coalition in Afghanistan, nor by the Afghan government —  which totals several billion dollars more . And these are only direct costs, which fail to capture the opportunity costs ... , but  here again there are residual requirements  — perhaps $2 billion or more per year for continued support to Afghanistan’s security forces, and sizeable additional amounts in continued  development aid

cna talks: Domestic Terrorism in the United States

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In the wake of the recent mailed pipe bombs and Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting, CNA experts Bill Rosenau and Dawn Thomas discuss the historical context of domestic terrorism in America and the rise of the “lone wolf” and violent right-wing extremism over recent decades. They distinguish domestic terrorism from hate crimes and examine societal perceptions of the severity of each. They also review prevention and law enforcement responses to hate crimes and domestic terrorism. Rosenau notes that while terrorism is perceived as the more critical threat, Americans are more likely to be a victim of a hate crime. They also point out that if current systems have been unable to predict and identify perpetrators in recent years, it suggests the traditional risk factors may be outdated while modern technology and prediction tools are underutilized. Thomas questions why Americans are increasingly susceptible to malign influence, and Rosenau emphasizes the need for more academic study on domestic terrorism, as it poses a greater threat to American civilians than foreign terrorism.

Bill Rosenau   is an expert on United States and international military advisory roles and missions, international police training, terrorist innovation and political warfare. He is a Senior Policy Historian with CNA’s Center for Stability and Development and his recent research has examined threats, governance and diplomacy in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Balkans

Ukraine’s Ripple Effect on Russia’s Indo-Pacific Horizon

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Elizabeth Wishnick examines how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has impacted the country’s economic and strategic prospects with the Asia-Pacific states.

China Studies Program . She is an expert in Sino-Russian relations, Asian security and Arctic geopolitics.   This article was originally published by the Danish Institute of International Studies ... to herald their country’s greater participation in the region, but Cold War tensions and the economic weakness of the Russian Far East would prevent this development. In 2012, when Russia hosted

The China- Russia ‘No Limits’ Partnership Is Still Going Strong

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Elizabeth Wishnick explores how the war in Ukraine has impacted China and Russia's partnership as well as the relationship between Xi and Putin.

regime security as their main priority and are determined to shape the international order in such a way that authoritarian states can be rule-makers. Just 20 days before Russia invaded Ukraine ... . Yang noted that, under Putin and Xi, Sino-Russian relations “have always maintained a momentum of vigorous development”. Despite the imposition of unprecedented sanctions on Russia

China-Russia Energy Relations

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Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin inaugurated the Power of Siberia pipeline, which links the world's largest natural gas exporter to the world's largest natural gas importer.

and economic development,” according to a summary of the meeting posted on the website of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Remind Washington that China has alternatives to U.S. LNG. The launch ... Novatek and its international partners (France’s Total, China’s CNPC and Silk Road Fund) completed the Yamal LNG project on time and on budget in December 2017 despite Western sanctions. CNPC has

Can Kim Jong Un Really Denuclearize?

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A fundamental question facing U.S. policymakers is whether North Korea intends to denuclearize. Most Pyongyang-watchers believe this is an impossibility, at least for the near term.

require first laying the foundation internally. Kim’s legitimacy is based on  Byungjin  — the dual development of the nuclear program and the economy. Since he has not made the economic piece ... and international community would follow through on any agreement. This would be difficult to pull off if North Korea had to agree to denuclearize on the front end; Kim could more easily agree

ai with ai: Oura-boros

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an announcement from WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, WVU Medicine, and Oura Health, with the ability to predict COVID-19 related symptoms up to three days in advance via biometric monitoring. Japan's M3 is teaming with Alibaba's AI Tech to provide CT-scan capability to hospitals that can identify COVID-related pneumonia. The Pentagon taps into the virus-relief CARES Act to use AI for virus cure and vaccine efforts. Rockefeller announces efforts to use GPT-2 to automatically summarize COVID-19 medical research articles, but the results aren’t that great. In regular AI news, IBM announces it is no longer offering general-purpose facial recognition or analysis software, due to concerns about the technology being used to promote racism. And in a related announcement, Amazon places a one-year moratorium on allowing law enforcement to use its Rekognition facial recognition platform. USSOCOM has posted an RFI for potential contractors to provide its Global Analytics Platform, a $300-600M contract that would follow its previous eMAPS contract. And NASA launches its Entrepreneurs Challenge, seeking new ideas for space exploration. In research, from the University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, Google Brain, University of Toronto, Carnegie Mellon University, and Facebook AI, comes a different approach to defining intrinsic motivation for taskless problems, wherein agents seek out future inputs that are expected to be novel. The report of the week comes from the Stanley Center for Peace and Security, with a look at The Militarization of AI. Researchers at Beijing Academy and Cambridge University come together to pen a white paper calling for "cross-cultural cooperation" on AI ethics and governance. Efron, Hastie, and Cambridge University Press provide Computer Age Statistical Inference for free. And DeepMind and the UCL Centre for AI are producing a Deep Learning Lecture Series.

Spending Plan Announcements / News - "Just" AI IBM Is Dropping All Facial Recognition Research and Development Announcement IBM CEO Letter to Congress NIST Study "Gender Shades ... Intelligence 32 page report White Paper of the Week An International Call for "Cross-Cultural Cooperation" on AI Ethics and Governance Summary 23 Page Paper Book of the Week

ai with ai: For Your AIs Only

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Russia expert Sam Bendett joins Andy and Dave for a discussion and update on Russia’s latest developments and efforts in AI and autonomy. The group discusses a 30 May meeting, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined the national AI priorities; the Russian AI strategy, originally expected in June, is now expected in the June-to-October timeframe. They also discuss the growing AI infrastructure, and the opening of AI centers across the country, with a mindset similar to a “startup culture,” with Russian AI developers getting international recognition. The group touches on relations between Russia and China, particularly in the wake of the Huawei issues. The “Army-2019” military expo in June should also provide useful insights about the Russian military development and employment of AI and related capabilities.

infrastructure, and the opening of AI centers across the country, with a mindset similar to a “startup culture,” with Russian AI developers getting international recognition. The group touches on relations between Russia and China, particularly in the wake of the Huawei issues. The “Army-2019” military expo in June should also provide useful insights about the Russian military development

ai with ai: 52 Views of HOListic Imagination

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In news items, Andy and Dave discuss China’s call for international cooperation on a code of ethics for AI. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) unveils the first intergovernmental standards for AI policies, with support from 42 countries. The US Army has invited the design of prototypes for the Next-Generation Squad Weapon, which may include wind-sensing and even facial-recognition technology. DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) presents an essay at IEEE Spectrum, which describes the challenges of making the most out of an increasingly crowded electromagnetic spectrum, including running contests for better spectrum management, and using Colosseum as the testing ground. Google announces the ‘AI Workshop,’ which offers early access to AI capabilities and experiments. In research, Google DeepMind announces an AI that has achieved human-level performance in Quake III Arena Capture the Flag mode; among other things, human players rated the AI as “more collaborative than other humans” (though had mixed reaction to the AI as their teammates). Google Research presents HOList, an environment for machine learning of higher-order theorem proving. Research from Oxford University creates a model for human-like machine thinking by mimicking the prefrontal cortex for language-guided imagination. A paper from Jeff Cline at Uber AI Labs suggests a different approach to Artificial General Intelligence, by means of AI-generating algorithms that learn how to produce AgI. MacroPolo produces a series of 6 charts on Chinese AI talent. CBInsights compiles the view of 52 “experts” on “How AI Will Go Out of Control.” Blum, Kopcroft, Kannan, and Microsoft release Foundations of Data Science; Hutter, Kotthoff, Vanschoren, and Springer-Verlag make Automated Machine Learning available. The Purdue Symposium on Ethics, Technology, and the Future of War and Security release a video on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Autonomy and AI in Warfare. The University of Colorado Boulder creates an Index of Complex Networks (ICON). And Alexander Reben creates a repository of 1 million fake AI-generated faces.

2-31 In news items, Andy and Dave discuss China’s call for international cooperation on a code of ethics for AI. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) unveils the first intergovernmental standards for AI policies, with support from 42 countries. The US Army has invited the design of prototypes for the Next-Generation Squad Weapon, which may include wind-sensing ... /AI_2_31.jpg 52 Views of HOListic Imagination News China releases a code of ethics for AI, Calls For International Cooperation 42 Countries Agree to International Principles for Artificial Intelligence

ai with ai: The One about ‘Bots…

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“Bots” reign supreme in this week’s episode, though Andy and Dave start the discussion NIST’s RFI on the development of technical standards for AI. A Harvard Medical School project demonstrates a catheter that can autonomously move inside a live, beating pig’s heart. Zipline uses medical delivery drones in Rwanda. University of Maryland researchers demonstrate drone delivery of a kidney for transplant. NASA tests a CACADA swarm and is also investigating Marsbees. And Starship robo-couriers deliver food to students at GMU. In research from Berkeley, a robot learns to use improvised tools to complete tasks, including those with physical cause-and-effect relationships. Researchers at MIT, MIT-IBM Watson, and DeepMind create the Neuro-Symbolic Concept Learner (NSCL), which uses a hybrid connectionist/symbolic approach, and seems to be a “true” AI implementation of Winograd’s SHRDLU system from the 60s. Research from Tsinghua University and Google demonstrates Neural Logic Machines, a neural-symbolic architecture for both inductive learning and logic reasoning. Two papers compare logistic regression with machine learning methods for clinical predictions; one shows no benefit of one method over the other, while the other claims better performance with neural network methods (although Andy and Dave wonder whether this statement is true, given the error bars in the results). Algorithm Watch publishes a Global Inventory of AI Ethics Guidelines. Times Higher Education (THE) and Microsoft release a survey on AI of more than 100 AI experts and university leaders. The Department of Information Technology at the University of Uppsala in Sweden has made its lecture notes for a statistical machine learning course available. The Santa Fe Institute reprints a classic collection of essays from its Founding Workshops. Robert Kranekg pens a story about an Angry Engineer. And the OpenAI Robotics Symposium 2019 releases the full video proceedings online.

“Bots” reign supreme in this week’s episode, though Andy and Dave start the discussion NIST’s RFI on the development of technical standards for AI. A Harvard Medical School project demonstrates ... /AI_2_28.jpg The One about ‘Bots… News – Mostly Bots, Bots, and more Bots NIST Releases RFI on the Development of Technical Standards for AI Workshop Announcement A robotic catheter has ... Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2019) Will be held May 6 – 9, in New Orleans. Schedule Accepted papers   (includes links to pdfs) ContactName