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AI in Russia 17

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This report, the seventeenth in a series of biweekly updates, is part of an effort by CNA to provide timely, accurate, and relevant information and analysis of the field of civilian and military artificial intelligence (AI) in Russia and, in particular, how Russia is applying AI to its military capabilities. It relies on Russian-language open source material.

higher education, improve STEM education at all levels, and seek to attract talent from abroad. Putin argued that, over the next 10 years, it will be important to conduct a digital transformation

Systems Thinking and Wargaming

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Wargaming, in what may be called its modern form, has been around for well over 200 years. Systems thinking and its more complex variant, systems dynamics, have been prominent techniques in management science since the late 1950s. This paper explores the connections between these two powerful tools. It addresses the questions of how wargaming can support those who develop and use systems models, and how such systems models can, in turn, help those who design, control, and play in wargames. These subjects are especially timely because today’s theater commanders and their staffs are challenged to conduct—and assess the effectiveness of—“influence operations.” The nature of these sorts of operations is always changing, and measures of their effectiveness are at best controversial and at worst, non-existent. Wargaming and systems thinking can help.

in other forums, stem from several different feed forward and feedback loops, along with unspoken or unanticipated player actions. It is here that systems thinking models can provide unique support

ai with ai: The Earth Dies Dreaming

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including a letter from the National Transportation Safety Board that asks the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to regulate more strictly autonomous vehicles and driver assistance technologies; of note, the letter also uses Tesla as an example, stating that the company is using its customers to beta test its full self-driving technology on public roads. KMPG surveys business leaders on a variety of AI-related topics and finds that, among other things, many more leaders have the perception that AI tech is moving out too quickly. Researchers at Aston University announce a three-year study to explore the utility of human brain stem cells grown on a microchip, a so-called Neu-ChiP. Researchers from Norway and Australia unveil DyRET, a quadruped robot that can adapt its morphology (such as growing taller or shorter) as it encounters different environments. And Japanese researchers describe a decoded neurofeedback (DecNef) method, which uses fMRI to visualize brain activity and then calculate the similarity between real-time brain activity and brain activity patterns corresponding to specific pre-established memory and mental states. Microsoft’s PowerPoint has a Presenter Coach that will listen and watch your presentation and give you pointers on speech patterns, pacing, attention, body language, and other attributes. The two main research items both involve AI agents playing in the Atari Learning Environment (57 games from Atari’s library), and both with groundbreaking results in different ways: Uber AI and OpenAI use a model-free approach in Go-Explore, which uses a concept of “first return (to previous states), and then explore; GoogleAI use a world model approach with DreamerV2, which learns behaviors inside a separately trained world model (they also recommend a “clipped record mean” to aggregate scores across the various games). The survey of the week looks at Deepfakes Generation & Detection. Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg publish Linguistics for the Age of AI, arguing that researchers must place linguistics front and center for machines to achieve human-level language understanding, with big data and stats approaches as contributing methods. And in the video of the week, Steven Gouveia has produced a documentary on The Age of AI.

. Researchers at Aston University announce a three-year study to explore the utility of human brain stem cells grown on a microchip, a so-called Neu-ChiP. Researchers from Norway and Australia unveil DyRET ... Letter by Sumwalt Story about the Tesla-semi- crash on March 11 Industry Survey by KPMG:   Thriving in an AI World Key Findings summary 2020 Report Stem cell AI --

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."

engendered the most handwringing, concern, and pushback. Some of the worries surrounding these talks stem from legitimate concerns, such as the rights of women and minorities — concerns that the Taliban ... of these concerns — some are legitimate, stemming from real, personal fears of people likely to be directly (and perhaps repressively) affected by the results of these talks. Others stem from fears of loss of power, prestige, and/or streams of wealth that are assured to a select group that benefits from a wartime economy — a group that is not confined to the borders of Afghanistan. Still others stem from sunk

Propaganda, Disinformation, & Other Influence Efforts

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CNA studies propaganda and disinformation for the U.S. government, especially China’s efforts to shape the information environment in Asia and Indo-Pacific.

the challenges of the 21st Century information environment through projects that combine functional and regional expertise with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and social science methodologies

No Risk Free Option in Afghanistan

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The pace of developments in Afghanistan has created stark choices for the Biden administration. In recent weeks and months, many commentators have penned op-eds arguing for or against certain policy options.

to stem the tide of the Taliban’s offensive actions in Afghanistan. Nor are they designed to. With the formal end of combat operations in 2014, the U.S. and coalition shifted to a mission of training

ai with ai: Crime & Publishment

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It’s a week of huge announcements! But first, in COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss a review paper in Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals that provides a more international focus on the role of AI and ML in COVID research. CSAIL teams with Ava Robotics to design a robot that maneuver between waypoints and disinfect surfaces of warehouses with UV-C light. C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute awards $5.4M to 26 AI researchers for projects related to COVID-19. In non-COVID news, the Association for Computing Machinery calls for the immediate suspension of facial recognition technologies until more mature and reliable. US lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban police use of facial recognition, while separate bills seek to increase the AI talent available for the Department of Defense, and work to realign and rewire the JAIC within DOD. Over 2300 researchers sign a petition to Springer Nature to reject a publication from Harrisburg University, which developed facial recognition software to predict whether somebody was going to be a criminal. Meanwhile, researchers from Stanford demonstrate the problem of reproducibility by giving a data set of brain scans to 70 different researcher teams; no two teams chose the same workflow to analyze the data, and the final conclusions showed a sizeable variation. In a similar vein, researchers at Duke University examine the historical record of brain scan research and find poor correlation across experiments. In research, the "best paper" for the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition goes to a team from Oxford, who use unsupervised learning methods and symmetry to convert single 2D images into 3D models. Researchers at Uber, the University of Toronto, and MIT use 3D simulated worlds to generate synthetic data for training LiDAR systems on self-driving vehicles. Calum MacKellar makes Cyborg Mind available, a look into the future of cyberneuroethics. And Johns Hopkins prepares for a second seminar on Operationalizing AI in Health.

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