Two US officials exclusively tell Breaking Defense the details of new international “working groups” that are the next step in Washington’s campaign for ethical and safety standards for military AI and automation – without prohibiting their use entirely.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Future inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
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Even if China doesn’t agree to or abide by new “confidence-building measures,” CNAS scholar Tom Shugart says, the US and its allies should adopt them unilaterally to reduce the risk of accidents or worse in the West Pacific.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Russia’s stance will need to be “baked into” Biden administration “thinking as we look at our own nuclear modernization, our own deterrence measures that we may want to take, and what the security environment could look like after 2026,” said White House arms control advisor Pranay Vaddi.
By Theresa Hitchens
Over the last 11 months, the US has made major progress in defining “Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence” and even getting other nations to sign on the idea — without ever actually precluding the kind of automated “killer robots” activists want to ban.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Details are scant for now, but experts tell Breaking Defense that any AI agreement between China and the US could involve a pledge not to use AI in nuclear systems.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Of military to military relations with China, the US is “ready to talk when you’re ready to talk,” White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said today in a speech to the Arms Control Association.
By Theresa Hitchens
Last week, 33 nations called for a global treaty restricting “lethal autonomous weapons.” But US officials warn that such a ban would be both premature and overly narrow, preferring broader but non-binding “best practices” guiding any military employment of AI.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
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The revised DoD Directive 3000.09 refines an obscure review process, adding broad AI ethics principles but still not actually forbidding development or deployment of would-be killer robots.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
For US nuclear stocks, Jill Hruby of the Department of Energy said, “this is the most demanding moment in the history of our nation’s nuclear enterprise since the Manhattan Project.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“Once we have more people in country, we should be in a position to actually go do more physical validation [and] verification, going forward,” said Jed Royal, deputy director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
By Valerie Insinna
The context for President Biden’s almost four-hour discussion Monday night with President Xi Jinpeng, Kurt Campbell said, is “that the United States is here to stay in the Indo-Pacific, and we’re going to defend and support the operating system that has been so good for so many of us for many years.”
By Colin Clark
The House version of the NDAA represents the largest package of legislation that restrict weapons transfers since the 1990s — a good first step.
By Jordan Cohen
The new UK space strategy “seems to be in Boris’ own words “spacetastic”: a positive big picture, but very thin on detail. The U.K. does not have the kind of money needed to fulfill all its aspirations,” said Alex Walmsley, associate fellow at RUSI.
By Theresa Hitchens
We should not mince words: Russia’s missile diplomacy is built on a lie.
By John D. Maurer