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"Artificial Intelligence Arms Race Creating Multi-Billion-Dollar Opportunity"

May 27, 2020

 

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US Air Force designing autonomous aircraft for air-to-air combat

Jun 14, 2020

US Air Force researchers are designing an autonomous aircraft for air-to-air combat and have set a goal for testing it against a Human Pilot on July 2021. The Air Force wants to add AI and machine learning algorithms to maintenance practices to battle planning.

 

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Steven Pressfield: The War of Art | AI Podcast #102 with Lex Fridman

Jun 20, 2020

Steven Pressfield is a historian and author of War of Art, a book that had a big impact on my life and the life of millions of whose passion is to create in art, science, business, sport, and everywhere else. I highly recommend it and others of his books on this topic, including Turning Pro, Do the Work, Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit, and the Warrior Ethos. Also his books Gates of Fire about the Spartans and the battle at Thermopylae, The Lion's Gate, Tides of War, and others are some of the best historical fiction novels ever written. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.

Outline:

0:00 - Introduction
5:00 - Nature of war
11:43 - The struggle within
17:11 - Love and hate in a time of war
25:17 - Future of warfare
28:31 - Technology in war
30:10 - What it takes to kill a person
32:22 - Mortality
37:30 - The muse
46:09 - Editing
52:19 - Resistance
1:10:41 - Loneliness
1:12:24 - Is a warrior born or trained?
1:13:53 - Hard work and health
1:18:41 - Daily ritual

 

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Article "Moscow’s Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence for Military Purposes"

by Roger McDermott
July 1, 2020

 

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Will military robots be used to take over the world? | Robots Everywhere

July 17, 2020

By and large, robots exist to do good things. That’s usually what we build them for. They vacuum our floors, they work on assembly lines, and they even play fetch with our dogs. But there’s one area where robots span the full spectrum and, in addition to doing good, also get unnervingly close to being evil and taking over the world. We're talking, of course, about military robots

"9 military robots that are totally terrifying … and oddly adorable"

by Will Nicol
July 17, 2020

 

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Article "AI Copilot: Air Force achieves first military flight with artificial intelligence"

December 16, 2020

Article "An AI Co-Pilot Called ‘ARTUµ’ Just Took Command of A U-2’s Sensor Systems On A Recon Mission"

by Eric Tegler
December 16, 2020

Article "Artoo, take the wheel: U-2 spy plane flies for the first time with an AI co-pilot"

by Valerie Insinna
December 16, 2020

 

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Article "‘Drone swarms’ are coming, and they are the future of wars in the air"
The question really is not if, but when and where drone swarms, which is the next evolution of robotic warfare, will be utilised in real-time operations.

by Sameer Joshi
February 2, 2021

 

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Article "The World Is Turning to AI Weapons to Reduce War Casualties. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"

by Aditi Murti
February 11, 2021

 

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Article "Away From Silicon Valley, the Military Is the Ideal Customer"
While much has been made of tech’s unwillingness to work with the Pentagon, start-ups are still plumbing the industry’s decades-long ties to the military.

by Cade Metz
February 26, 2021

Anduril Industries, Inc.

 

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Article "Smart Weapons Form Thinking Battlefields"
One of the fastest-growing segments of military electronics is the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in guided weapons, which lets them do some of the thinking for themselves.

by Jack Browne
March 2, 2021

 

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Article "AI Could Enable 'Swarm Warfare' for Tomorrow's Fighter Jets"
A Pentagon project is testing scenarios involving multiple aircraft that could change the dynamics of air combat.

by Will Knight
March 22, 2021

 

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Article "It is time to negotiate global treaties on artificial intelligence"

by John R. Allen and Darrell M. West
March 24, 2021

 

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Army performs first autonomous robotics test at new site near Baltimore

Feb 18, 2021

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Army researchers recently expanded their research area for robotics to a site just north of Baltimore.

The U.S Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory now uses land on the Graces Quarters peninsula, as part of the ARL Robotics Research Collaborative Campus, known as R2C2, for experimentation and research operations.

 

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Activate the droids

Nov 2, 2017

Slightly edited scene from The Phantom Menace

 

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"The Rise of Russia’s Military RobotsFebruary 2021Sten AllikTheory, Practice and Implications"

by Sten Allik, Sean Fahey, Tomas Jermalavičius,
February 2021

 

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Article "Russia Is Building an Army of Robot Weapons, and China's AI Tech Is Helping"

by Tom O'Connor
May 24, 2021

 

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Article "Israel's operation against Hamas was the world's first AI war"
The IDF used artificial intelligence and supercomputing during the last conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

by Anna Ahronheim
May 27, 2021

 

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The future of modern warfare: How technology is transforming conflict | DW Analysis

Jun 4, 2021

The world is entering a new era of warfare, with cyber and autonomous weapons taking center stage. These technologies are making militaries faster, smarter, more efficient. But if unchecked, they threaten to destabilize the world.
DW takes a deep dive into the future of conflict, uncovering an even more volatile world. Where a cyber intrusion against a nuclear early warning system can unleash a terrifying spiral of escalation; where “flash wars” can erupt from autonomous weapons interacting so fast that no human could keep up.
Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas tells DW that we have already entered the technological arms race that is propelling us towards this future. “We’re right in the middle of it. That’s the reality we have to deal with.”
And yet the world is failing to meet the challenge. Talks on controlling autonomous weapons have repeatedly been stalled by major powers seeking to carve out their own advantage. And cyber conflict has become not just a fear of the future but a permanent state of affairs.
DW finds out what must happen to steer the world in a safer direction, with leading voices from the fields of politics, diplomacy, intelligence, academia, and activism speaking out.

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
02:37 - The Cyber Nuclear Nightmare
17:05 - Flash Wars And Autonomous Weapons
30:12 - Trading Markets And Flash Crashes
31:45 - Time To Act

"Germany warns: AI arms race already underway"
The world is entering a new era of warfare, with artificial intelligence taking center stage. AI is making militaries faster, smarter and more efficient. But if left unchecked, it threatens to destabilize the world.

by Richard Walker
June 7, 2021

Ulrike Franke

 

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Article "Nato allies need to speed up AI defence co-operation"
High-tech warfare will be high on agenda at summit, but most members are playing catch-up with China

by Helen Warrell
June 8, 2021

 

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Article "Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned"
It may not be too late to put the evil "Slaughterbots" genie back in the bottle, if the world acts now

by Stuart Russell, Anthony Aguirre, Emilia Javorsky and Max Tegmark
June 16, 2021