AI & Autonomy
Meet the 'Mayflower:' Sailing Into a New World, All Over Again
Our autonomous ship will attempt to cross the Atlantic from Plymouth to Plymouth. Here's how — and what we hope the Navy can learn from her.
Bipartisan Senate Bill Seeks to Boost Pentagon AI Talent
Step one: teach the Defense Department's HR staff to find and hire experts in artificial intelligence.
ICE Details Its Outsourced Face-Recognition Efforts
A new report details the workings, rules, and privacy implications of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's 3rd-party facial recognition system.
The Pentagon's $800M Effort to Embed AI In Decisions in 'All Tiers'
That's the goal of a five-year task order from the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to Booz Allen Hamilton.
Pentagon Wants Help With Its Predictive Aircraft Maintenance AI
Among other things, the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center needs someone to format data about H-60 helicopters in a way that an AI can learn from it.
US Army to Study How Humans Team With AI
A new contract will focus on the teaming aspect of artificial intelligence in warfare by analyzing how humans and machines think when working together.
Smart Weapons Need to Be Smarter
No missiles should shoot down civilian airliners by mistake.
Oak Ridge National Lab Taps Supercomputers to Fight Coronavirus
Researchers received emergency computation time to run through a database of drug compounds to see which combinations might prevent COVID-19.
How an AI Sent an Early Warning about the Coronavirus Outbreak
BlueDot’s algorithm draws on news stories, disease-tracking networks, and even airline ticketing. But such tools are hardly foolproof.
America Must Shape the World’s AI Norms — or Dictators Will
Four former U.S. defense secretaries issue a warning about China and a wake-up call to Americans on artificial intelligence.
Pentagon Taps Leader to Implement New AI Ethics
It's Alka Patel, a lawyer who has been working for the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center.
Great Powers Must Talk to Each Other About AI
Even as they compete, major militaries have reason to cooperate: to avoid misunderstanding and to establish best practices and pragmatic parameters.
Putin Seeks to Plug Gaps in Russia's State-Driven Tech Efforts
His Wednesday speech acknowledged difficulties Russian researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs face, particularly in the realm of finance.
DARPA Aims to Develop a ‘Sea Train’ of Unmanned Warships
The Pentagon’s research arm is looking for technologies for a new class of long-distance unmanned surface vessels.
Russia’s Military Is Writing an Armed-Robot Playbook
The new tactics and operating concepts will draw on three years of Syrian operations.
The US Navy Needs Offensive Undersea Drones
The maritime domain has yet to see the kind of explosive innovation that UAVs have brought to land warfare.
Russia’s AI Quest is State-Driven — Even More than China’s. Can It Work?
Handicaps: weak private sector, Soviet-style bureaucracy. Helps: Great STEM education — and history.
Misguided Immigration Policies Are Endangering America's AI Edge
Green card limits haven’t budged in decades, while new policies make it harder, costlier, and more uncertain for the world’s talent to come to the United States.
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