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New digital journal: Security at sea, and under it

By Bulletin Staff | Jul 6, 2016

In their article on China’s security agenda in the South China Sea, experts John Lewis and Xue Litai quote Chinese president Xi Jinping: “History and experience tell us that a country will rise if it commands the oceans well and will fall if it surrenders them.” This special issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic … Continued

US killer robot policy: Full speed ahead

By Mark Gubrud | Sep 20, 2013

The Defense Department's policy for autonomy in weapon systems may appear to reflect caution, but it allows the Pentagon to fund, test, buy, and use technology that could target and kill by machine decision.

Drink the Kool-Aid all you want, but don’t call AI an existential threat

By Jeff Caruso | Apr 29, 2024

Generative AI can wreak havoc in many ways but it’s not an existential threat any more than computer code is.

An expert collection on the military applications of AI

By Bulletin Staff | Apr 24, 2018

Over the course of this week, the Bulletin, in partnership with the Stanley Foundation, is publishing top experts on how to manage the explosion of military AI research and development around the world. Here’s what you need to know: The promise and peril of military applications of artificial intelligence Michael C Horowitz; @mchorowitz Published Monday, … Continued

“As much death as you want”: UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell on “Slaughterbots”

By Lucien Crowder | Dec 5, 2017

If you never dreamed that toy-like drones from off the shelf at the big-box store could be converted—with a bit of artificial intelligence and a touch of shaped explosive—into face-recognizing assassins with a mission to terminate you—well, dream it.

AI and the future of warfare: The troubling evidence from the US military

By Paul Lushenko | Nov 29, 2023

US military officers can approve the use of AI-enhanced military technologies that they don't trust. And that's a serious problem.

The promise and peril of military applications of artificial intelligence

By Michael C. Horowitz | Apr 23, 2018

The promise of AI—including its ability to improve the speed and accuracy of everything from logistics and battlefield planning to human decision making—is driving militaries around the world to accelerate research and development. Here’s why.

Who’ll want artificially intelligent weapons? ISIS, democracies, or autocracies?

By Michael C. Horowitz | Jul 29, 2016

If you’re a dictator who can’t trust your own people in the military, you can still trust a machine to do your dirty work.

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AI in war: Can advanced military technologies be tamed before it’s too late?

By Steven Feldstein | Jan 11, 2024

There is an urgency for countries to agree on common rules about the development, deployment, and use of emerging military tech in war.

The best of the roundtables, 2015

By | Dec 28, 2015

A choice selection of pieces from our Deveopment and Disarmament Roundtable series

From nuclear bombs to killer robots: how amoral technologies become immoral weapons

By Emma Hansen | Aug 27, 2014

Powerful countries wield the rhetoric of imminent security threats to rationalize unjust uses of new military technologies.

A picture’s power to prevent

By Seth Baum | Aug 6, 2015

The most important legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is in images that could avert worse wars to come.

Which drone future will Americans choose?

By Hugh Gusterson | Nov 22, 2013

The decisions US leaders make now over unmanned aerial vehicles will have enormous consequences.

Defending against “The Entertainment”

By William Regli | Apr 25, 2018

Amid the published angst about AI and its hypothetical threats, more attention ought to be given to the threat that AI-enabled entertainment poses to our brains and our civilization.

PRESS RELEASE: Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight

By Sarah Starkey | Jan 23, 2024

In 2024, the Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the Clock has ever been to midnight. This reflects the continued state of unprecedented danger the world faces. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, stewards of the Doomsday Clock, emphasized in their announcement that the Clock can be turned back, but governments and people need to take urgent action.

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