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Article "Google employees demand the company pull out of Pentagon AI project"
‘Google should not be in the business of war.’

by Dani Deahl
April 4, 2018

 

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Should we use AI machines in war? - Tomorrow's World - BBC

Published on May 16, 2018

Professor Stuart Russell discusses the potential use of AI drones in warfare. The United States have trialled using autonomous weaponised drones and they could be the next major weapons of mass destruction. The question is: do we want machines to make decisions on killing in war?

 

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Article "Artificial Intelligence in the Navy – Current Contractors and Innovations"

by Millicent Abadicio
January 23, 2019

 

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Article "Developments in military: what it means and what it doesn't"

by Justin Lee
April 18, 2019

 

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Article "The Air Force’s 5 principles to advance artificial intelligence"

by Kelsey Reichmann
June 26, 2019

 

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Panel discussion: Artificial Intelligence in the military

Published on Aug 5, 2019

Watch as panelists discuss artificial intelligence as it relates to military uses during AFWERX Fusion 2019.

Moderator:
- Andrew S. Bowne, Associate Professor, Contract and Fiscal Law Department, The Judges Advocate General's School

Panelists:
- Michael Kanaan, Captain, Co-chair for Artificial Intelligence, HAF AI Cross-Functional Team U.S. Air Force
- Eric Frahm, Lt. Col., Technology Integration Detachment Director Air Education & Training Command, U.S. Air Force
- Anthony Sanchez, Technical Director, Government, Veritone Inc.
- Matthew J. Tarascio, VP & Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Corporate Engineering, Technology & Operations, Lockheed Martin

 

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Article "Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill"
Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare.

by Zachary Fryer-Biggs
September 2, 2019

 

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Article "The Pentagon's AI Chief Prepares for Battle"
Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan doesn't want killer robots—but he does want artificial intelligence to occupy a central role in warfighting.

by Elias Groll
December 18, 2019

 

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"Revolutionary Artificial Intelligence warship contracts announced"
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has announced the first wave of £4 million funding

January 14, 2020

 

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Article "Pentagon will start figuring out AI for lethality in 2021"

by Kelsey D. Atherton
January 22, 2020

 

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Article "Aided Detection on the Future Battlefield"

by Patrick Ferraris
January 24, 2020

 

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Discover the first unmanned mine warfare system operational at sea - Thales

Feb 4, 2020

The French Marine Nationale and the Royal Navy will be the first navies in the world to benefit from 2 fully unmanned mine warfare systems in the coming weeks. Based on surface and submarine robots and drones, this solution aims at keeping sailors away from the threat and will revolutionize the mine warfare domain. This system is also based on artificial intelligence technologies that will significantly improve the detection and identification of the threat and will be of prime importance for the operators in conducting their protection missions.

 

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The killer robot takeover is inevitable

Feb 16, 2020

VICE gained exclusive access to a small fleet of US Army bomb disposal robots—the same platforms the military has weaponized—and to a pair of DARPA’s six-foot-tall bipedal humanoid robots. We also meet Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams, renowned physicist Max Tegmark, and others who grapple with the specter of artificial intelligence, killer robots, and a technological precedent forged in the atomic age. It’s a story about the evolving relationship between humans and robots, and what AI in machines bodes for the future of war and the human race.

 

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Navy's first unmanned surface vessel demonstrates future of homeland protection

Feb 18, 2020

During Exercise Citadel Shield-Solid Curtain 2020, the CUSV was demonstrated during a force protection scenario at Naval Station Norfolk, Feb. 12.

The Navy-industry Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA team—comprised of Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NWCDD) and Textron Systems—is responsible for developing multi-mission payloads for the Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV).

Videographers: MC2 Grant Grady, MC3 Skyler Okerman, MC3 Rebekah Rinckey
Producer: Travis Kuykendall

 

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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