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By Lauren C. Williams Mar 16, 2021 The Defense Department needs to embrace artificial intelligence at every leadership level, according to Robert Work, vice chairman of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and former deputy defense secretary. "We are shifting into an era of systems warfare," Work testified during a joint hearing with the House Armed Services Subcommittee on cyber, innovative technologies and information systems and the House Oversight and Reform national ...

China has used the COVID-19 pandemic to rapidly expand its “corrosive, insidious influence” – from money laundering for transnational gangsters to using its own ships to illegally fish protected waters and benefit from illegal logging and mining – “in our neighborhood,” U.S. Southern Command’s top officer said Tuesday. “I can’t stress enough the full-court press” […]

The bill has roughly $13.5 billion for cybersecurity updates to services essential to daily life.

Quick Hits *** The congressionally chartered National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence submitted its final report on March 1. In the introduction, chairman Eric Schmidt and vice chairman Robert Work caution about the rise of lethal AI among U.S. adversaries and argues that "we will not be able to defend against AI-enabled threats without ubiquitous AI capabilities and new warfighting paradigms." *** The General Services Administrationannounced a share of a Bitcoin will be part...

The global nuclear lobby will be glad when March is over. They were glad to see the end of January – too much public interest then in the U.N. Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. March is worse, especially because of the 10 year anniversary (11th March) of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, with clean-up nowhere in sight. The half-hearted hype is now on for the Olympic Games in July. The whole plan was for the Games to demonstrate that the nuclear catastrophe was actually noth...

The testimony is generously spiked with the China threat thesis the note of warning in not being too morally shackled becomes a screech.  War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence,  The ghost of Edward Teller must have been doing the rounds between members of the National Commission on Artificial Intelligence.  The father of the hydrogen bomb was never one too bothered by the ethical niggles that came with inventing murderous technology.  It was not, for instance, “the scientist’s jo...

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US lagging in critical artificial intelligence: panel AFP 3/2/2021 AFP © ALEX WONG Former Alphabet and Google CEO Eric Schmidt is seen at a 2019 conference of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which concluded that the United States is lagging in areas of AI critical to the nations future The United States is dangerously behind in artificial intelligence critical to its future including national security, according to a commission that includes a f...

Friday, 26 February 2021, 12:42 pm The ghost of Edward Teller must have been doing the rounds between members of the National Commission on Artificial Intelligence. The father of the hydrogen bomb was never one too bothered by the ethical niggles that came with inventing murderous technology. It was not, for instance, “the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used.” Responsibility, however exercised, res...

Military intelligence: the DoD ‘is now trying to make the leap to a software-intensive enterprise’ says the new report from the NSCAI. The US Department of Defense (DoD) must set “an ambitious goal” to have the foundations for widespread integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across defence in place by 2025, according to a draft of the final report from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). This should include “a common digital infrastructure that i...