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map showing water-related conflicts over thousands of years

4,000 years of conflict over water: a timeline

By Morgan Shimabuku | Analysis, Climate Change

The silhouette of a drone flying over the mountains line at sunset

Threat in the sky: How cheap drones are changing warfare

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

AI Command of the military forces on the tablet computer

War is messy. AI can’t handle it.

By Ian Reynolds, Ozan Ahmet Cetin | Disruptive Technologies

IAI Harop loitering munition

One way attack: How loitering munitions are shaping conflicts

By Dan Gettinger | Disruptive Technologies

color-enhance image from space

The complicating role of the private sector in space

By Victoria Samson | Disruptive Technologies

Examples of composite images designed to be used in disinformation campaigns. Left and Center: This anti-Widodo hashtag was added to the building through the use of a digital image-editing tool. The modification was detected by an algorithm that searches images for inconsistencies in the statistics of their pixels. Right: The CNN International logo has been added to a false news story about Widodo.

An AI early warning system to monitor online disinformation, stop violence, and protect elections

By Michael Yankoski, Tim Weninger, Walter Scheirer | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia

Examples of composite images designed to be used in disinformation campaigns. Left and Center: This anti-Widodo hashtag was added to the building through the use of a digital image-editing tool. The modification was detected by an algorithm that searches images for inconsistencies in the statistics of their pixels. Right: The CNN International logo has been added to a false news story about Widodo.

An AI early warning system to monitor online disinformation, stop violence, and protect elections

By Walter Scheirer, Tim Weninger, Michael Yankoski | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

To ban or regulate autonomous weapons – An Indian response

By Monika Chansoria | Uncategorized

Women and weapons: Redressing the gender gap: An Indian response

By Reshmi Kazi | Nuclear Weapons

Thomas Homer-Dixon: Exploring the climate “mindscape”

By | Interviews