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nuclear command and control

Screen shot from the film 'Artificial Escalation.'

‘Artificial Escalation’: Imagining the future of nuclear risk

By Anthony Aguirre, Emilia Javorsky, Max Tegmark | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Risk

Some countries plan to decentralize control of nuclear weapons in a crisis. Here’s why that’s dangerous.

By Giles David Arceneaux | Nuclear Weapons

nuclear football

Giving an AI control of nuclear weapons: What could possibly go wrong?

By Zachary Kallenborn | Disruptive Technologies

A US Air Force commander simulates launching a nuclear weapon.

Interview: Stanford’s Herbert Lin on “Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons”

By John Mecklin | Cyber Security, Nuclear Weapons

A U-2 spy plane.

Regulating military AI will be difficult. Here’s a way forward

By Vincent Boulanin | Artificial Intelligence

White House Situation Room Coronavirus briefing

How the coronavirus outbreak is like a nuclear attack: An interview with Jeffrey Lewis

By Jeffrey Lewis, John Krzyzaniak | Biosecurity, Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

Bruce Blair

Loose cannons: The president and US nuclear posture

By Bruce G. Blair | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Bruce Blair

Loose cannons: The president and US nuclear posture

By Bruce G. Blair

A US Air Force commander simulates launching a nuclear weapon.

As the US, China, and Russia build new nuclear weapons systems, how will AI be built in?

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk