Image Source: Academic Info Artificial Intelligence (AI) is constantly reshaping the boundaries of innovation, permeating every aspect of modern society, from healthcare to finance. As of November 2023, over half of global companies have integrated AI technologies into their operations. However, an alarming development has emerged alongside these advancements: the exploitation of AI by terrorist … Continue reading AI-Enabled Deception: The New Arena of Counterterrorism
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The Case for U.S. Homeland Ballistic Missile Defense Against North Korea
Image Source: Breaking Defense The United States has long maintained that it can defend the homeland against limited North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) strikes. The 2022 Missile Defense Review (MDR) reaffirmed that the United States “will continue to stay ahead of North Korean missile threats to the homeland” through homeland missile defense, missile defeat, … Continue reading The Case for U.S. Homeland Ballistic Missile Defense Against North Korea
Surging Violence and Far-Right Extremism: Unpacking Social Media’s Role in the 2024 Election
Image Source: Wall Street Journal Across the Western world, right-wing political movements are on the rise. In the United States, this has manifested in an uptick of far-right extremist activity on the fringes of the U.S. political spectrum. Since 2016, far-right ideology in the United States has increasingly been a driver of extremist violence. In … Continue reading Surging Violence and Far-Right Extremism: Unpacking Social Media’s Role in the 2024 Election
From Sling and Stone to Autonomous Drone? Key Questions for Determining Whether Autonomy Favors Davids or Goliaths
Image Source: DALLE-3, via ChatGPT Suppose that the year is 2035 and America is engaged in counterinsurgency operations in the Middle East: would autonomous drones favor the insurgents or counterinsurgents? Scholars such as T.X. Hammes, Paul Scharre, and Sarah Kreps have argued that autonomous military systems (AMS) will tend to favor conventionally “weaker” or poorer … Continue reading From Sling and Stone to Autonomous Drone? Key Questions for Determining Whether Autonomy Favors Davids or Goliaths
Fighting Fire with Fire: Opportunities for NATO’s Use of AI to Defend Against AI-Assisted Disinformation
Image Source: AI-generated (dream.ai) “The question is no longer whether [artificial intelligence] deepfakes could affect elections, but how influential they will be,” according to experts. None are more prominent in the field of disinformation than the Russians, who have set their sights on Europe and her upcoming elections. As artificial intelligence (AI) stands to accelerate … Continue reading Fighting Fire with Fire: Opportunities for NATO’s Use of AI to Defend Against AI-Assisted Disinformation
Prosecuting Asimov’s Nightmare: Killer Robots and the Law of War
Image Source: AI generated image (dream.ai) The United States and China are in a breathless race to master artificial intelligence (AI), accrue its benefits, and, in so doing, gain an advantage over the other. They are sprinting to rub a proverbial magic lamp, release its genie, and have their technological wishes granted. And, why not? … Continue reading Prosecuting Asimov’s Nightmare: Killer Robots and the Law of War
From Laboratories to Language Models: Can AI Support Rigor in the Jungle of Policy Analysis?
Image Source: DALL·E 3 (Via ChatGPT) Policymakers navigate deep uncertainty when dealing with national security and foreign policy dilemmas. Compared to some fields of engineering and traditional “hard sciences” (e.g., physics, medicine), intelligence analysts and political scientists are often unable to test their claims via rigorous experiments or other well-defined and reliable procedures. As a … Continue reading From Laboratories to Language Models: Can AI Support Rigor in the Jungle of Policy Analysis?
Open-Source Datasets: A Double-Edged Sword
Image Source: Pexels. In late December, a New York Times article highlighted a new artificial intelligence (AI) program run by the People's Republic of China's (PRC) Ministry of State Security, the PRC's primary intelligence agency. The article details that the PRC acquired an AI program that can create "instant dossiers on every person of interest … Continue reading Open-Source Datasets: A Double-Edged Sword
U.S. Economic Restrictions on China: Small Yard, High Fence?
Image Source: Reuters The Biden administration claims the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is leveraging its technological capabilities to promote its authoritarian governance model, modernize its military, and privilege its interests and values in the international system. As part of its efforts to address this challenge, the administration has singled out certain technologies as having … Continue reading U.S. Economic Restrictions on China: Small Yard, High Fence?
The United States’ Semiconductor Export Controls at One Year: Is the PRC Racing Forward?
Image Generated Using DALL-E 3 On October 7, 2022, the United States Department of Commerce announced a series of export controls that signaled a marked shift in U.S. policy and a new era of global technology competition. These restrictions aim to curb two crucial exports to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The first target … Continue reading The United States’ Semiconductor Export Controls at One Year: Is the PRC Racing Forward?