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View on russian pilotless air craft. Military drones on exhibition

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Author
News
Date
October 15, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
Advanced Research Foundation, DARPA, Deepfakes, Drone swarms, ERA (Russian military elite), Featured, Human in the loop, Military drones, Robert J. Marks, Samuel Bendett, Technopolis}

Russia Is Systematically Copying U.S. Military AI Robotics

_{In Russia’s topdown system, the military and corporations are essentially part of the same enterprise} _{News

October 15, 2020

10

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

This week’s podcast, “AI development in Russia,” is Part 2 of a podcast featuring Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks in discussion with Samuel Bendett about Russia’s intended military uses of AI. Bendett is an advisor to the Russia Studies Program and the Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence of the CNA Adversary Analysis Group. Last week, Marks and Bendett discussed Russia’s advances in facial recognition techniques for the surveillance of civilians. In the background was Vladimir Putin’s famous 2017 pronouncement in 2017, “Artificial intelligence is the future not only of Russia but of all of mankind… Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.” What are the military implications? https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-104-Samuel-Bendett.mp3 From the Read More ›

Dozens of Drones Swarm in the Cloudy Sky.

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
September 11, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
Angel Has Fallen (film), autonomous AI drones, Drone swarms, Featured, Helicopters, Paul Scharre, Slaughterbots (film), US Army}

Meet the U.S. Army’s New Drone Swarms

_{As with insects, only a few drones need survive to accomplish their task} _{Robert J. Marks

September 11, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

The US Army is developing a “swarm” of autonomous AI drones to protect combat helicopters. The swarm is modeled after social swarming insects like bees and ants who protect their queen. A drone nest protects the queen helicopter at all costs. The protective swarm’s tasks will range from sophisticated electronic warfare to acting as false targets (decoys) for incoming missiles. They will carry out theses tasks autonomously: Goals and tasks must be assigned by a person, but the way of their implementation, reaching the target or navigation and flight control is to be “in the hands of” advanced software and artificial intelligence. TOC, “The US Army is developing a ‘pocket’ swarm of combat drones” at BulgarianMilitary.com Here’s what a small Read More ›

UCAV(Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle) military drone

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
August 23, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
AI vs pilot dogfight, Cavalry, Dan “Animal” Javorsek, DARPA, Featured, Pilots}

After Thursday’s Dogfight, It’s Clear: DARPA Gets AI Right

_{In the dogfight Thursday between AI and a pilot, AI won. But what does that mean?} _{Robert J. Marks

August 23, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

AI prevailed against a human in DARPA’s recent AlphaDogfight trials. Given that DeepMind’s AI achieved the level of grandmaster in the StarCraft II video game, AI beating a human in a simulated closed world contest is not impressive. What is impressive is AlphaDogfight’s role in DARPA’s overall plan for the development of AI in the military. DARPA, the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has been called the US military’s “Department of Mad Scientists.” Its mission is to prevent strategic military surprise by supplying fertile ground where new and revolutionary ideas can sprout and grow. DARPA founded the internet and gave us the GPS (Global Positioning Satellite system) that guides our Google map directions. Less well known is DARPA’s Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
August 14, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
aerial dogfight, DARPA, dogfight, Donald Knuth, F-16, Featured}

DARPA Has Scheduled AI vs. AI Aerial Dogfights for Next Week

_{A round robin tournament will select the AI that faces off against a human pilot Thursday} _{Robert J. Marks

August 14, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

Forbes reports a simulated aerial dogfight will be held next week and we can watch it live: “The action will kick off Tuesday with AI vs. AI dogfights, featuring eight teams that developed algorithms to control a simulated F-16, leading to a round robin tournament that will select one to face off against a human pilot Thursday between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. EDT. You can register to watch the action online. DARPA adds that a “multi-view format will afford viewers comprehensive perspectives of the dogfights in real-time and feature experts and guests from the Control Zone, akin to a TV sports commentary desk. “With remarks from officials including USAF Colonel Daniel “Animal” Javorsek, head of the ACE program, recaps of Read More ›

The Atomic Bomb Dome Panorama in Hiroshima and the surounding garden in autumn at sunset on the side of Motoyasu River in Japan, with the Peace Memorial Park

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
August 6, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
Atomic bomb, Featured, George Santayana, Hiroshima, Hitler, Nagasaki, Philip Jenkins, The Case for Killer Robots, Vladimir Putin, Xinjiang}

Stark Lessons from the 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bomb

_{Nuclear weapons have not been used to destroy a city since Hiroshima and Nagasaki} _{Robert J. Marks

August 6, 2020

5

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

Seventy-five years ago today an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Einstein’s equation E=mc2 showed that 700 milligrams of mass (m), less than a third of the weight of a US dime, could be converted to enough energy (E) to destroy a Japanese city. The atomic bomb ended WWII. Advanced technology such as the atomic bomb not only wins wars but gives pause to otherwise aggressive adversaries. For this reason, I argue in my book, The Case for Killer Robots,that the United States must continue to develop cutting edge lethal AI for military use. As described in John Hersey’s essay “Hiroshima” in the New Yorker (1946), the effects of the atomic bomb were horrifying for the civilian population. Human beings Read More ›

F35 advanced military aircraft locking on target and firing Missile's . 3d rendering

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
June 17, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
Autonomous drones, Billy Mitchell, Featured, Gary Kasparov, Manned drones, QuEST (Qualia Exploitation of Sensors), Steven Rogers, USCYBERCOMMAND}

Will AI or Fighter Pilots Win the 2021 Dogfight? Or Both?

_{The outcome of future warfare will be decided, not by AI alone, but by finding and optimizing the tradeoff between human and artificial intelligence} _{Eric Holloway

June 17, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

The US Air Force began as Billy Mitchell’s prophecy that air power could decide the next war. That happened, of course, when the B-29 superfortress dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Ever since, the USAF has sought to adapt to the latest and most decisive forms of military technology. But the challenges have drastically changed. Most recently the USAF started USCYBERCOMMAND, due to the fact that a lone hacker can paralyze an entire nation’s infrastructure. The USAF also started the new Space Force, since a well placed orbital burst can take down the world’s satellite grid. Now USAF is delving into the world of autonomous drones, the next logical step from the manned drones (drones operated by a controller on Read More ›

Stack of papers isolated on white background

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
June 9, 2020

Categorized
Military, Peer Review

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Frank Tipler, Hiroshima, Karl Popper, Marshall McLuhan, William Sealy Gosset}

Einstein’s Single Journal Paper Ended WWII

_{Does that mean that a thousand papers could multiply the effect? Think again.} _{Robert J. Marks

June 9, 2020

5

Military, Peer Review}

It was Albert Einstein’s work on matter and energy, captured in e = mc2 that enabled the atomic bomb that ended World War II. Modern anonymous peer review today works well except that it is muddied with bias, incompetence, and ignorance. The review processes of Einstein’s day were better. A renowned expert’s approval was sufficient for a paper’s publication.1 The current system has only been in force since the end of World War II when pressure was applied to professors to write papers. The mantra “publish or perish” looks to have been coined soon after the war in 1951 by Marshall “The Medium is the Message” McLuhan.2 Earlier, professors were often discouraged from publishing. Karl Popper, one of the most Read More ›

HUD Futuristic Screen Design Element Virtual Reality Aerial View Escort Security Technology. UI Information Interface In Cyberspace Scanning Landscape Geometric Wireframe..

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Author
News
Date
June 6, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
Aerial combat, Air Force, Featured, Robert J. Marks, Thomas Furness, Virtual Reality (VR)}

VR Was Invented by an Air Force Engineer

_{Real world concerns drove his inventions, long before Comic Con} _{News

June 6, 2020

10

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

In a recent Mind Matters podcast, “Thomas Furness and the invention of virtual reality,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed Thomas Furness, an engineer who wanted American fighter pilots to be able to see what was really happening around them in the air. It seemed that they needed virtual reality to do it. And that’s how the technology that powers so many computer games today got started. The transcript can be downloaded at the bottom of the page here. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-085-Thomas-Furness.mp3 Here is is a partial transcript of highlights from the interview: Virtual reality was pioneered by Thomas Furness during his Air Force service in 1966 when he served as a Second Lieutenant at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Much Read More ›

High-Ranking Military Man holds a Briefing to a Team of Government Agents and Politicians, Shows Satellite Surveillance Footage.

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
May 4, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
Art of War (book), Blitzkrieg, Calvin and Hobbes, Creativity, Featured, Frederick the Great, Hannibal, Military strategy, Muhammad Ali, Patrick D. Wall, Reinforcement learning, Sun Tzu, warfare}

Calvin and Hobbes Explain Why AI Will Never Rule the Battlefield

_{The creativity needed for successful command is beyond the capability of AI} _{Robert J. Marks

May 4, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

AI sifts enormous amounts of accumulated data. But successful military strategy often depends on creating a new approach to a problem, one that lies outside the historical data available to the opposing forces. Muhammad Ali and Hannibal were famous for using such strategies.

Coronavirus market crash and financial crisis

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Author
News
Date
April 26, 2020

Categorized
Business and Finance, Information Theory, Medicine and Health, Military

Tagged
COVID-19, Featured, Insider trading, Nuclear football, Robert J. Marks, Stickers, Virus information content}

COVID-19: When 900 Bytes Shut Down the World

_{A great physicist warned us, information precedes matter and energy: Bit before it} _{News

April 26, 2020

9

Business and Finance, Information Theory, Medicine and Health, Military}

The COVID-19 virus contains about as much information as a sticker in WhatsApp. Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks and Dr. Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón explore a dreadful truth: “Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world.”

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
March 25, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health, Military

Tagged
COVID-19, design inference}

Was the COVID-19 Virus Designed? The Computer Doesn’t Know

_{Some researchers confuse not finding a particular type of design with ruling out design} _{Jonathan Bartlett

March 25, 2020

6

Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health, Military}

The authors of the paper saying that the virus could not have been designed base their findings on the fact that current software would not have predicted this result. I am not claiming that the virus was designed, only that a researcher need not have relied on this software to design a virus. The paper makes a faulty assumption.

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Author
News
Date
February 20, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
Audible format, Robert J. Marks, The Case for Killer Robots}

Killer Robots Is Now Available in Audible Format

_{Artificial intelligence expert Robert J. Marks contends that America must remain competitive in lethal AI military technology} _{News

February 20, 2020

2

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

In the book, Baylor professor Marks asks “What if ambitious nations such as China and Iran develop lethal AI military technology but the United States does not?” He argues that “Advanced technology not only wins wars but gives pause to otherwise aggressive adversaries.”

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Author
Bradley A. Alaniz and Jed Macosko
Date
February 5, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Military

Tagged
warfare, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)}

What Can We Learn from History About Stopping AI Warfare?

_{International agreements can work, but only under certain circumstances} _{Bradley A. Alaniz and Jed Macosko

February 5, 2020

5

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Military}

Historically, the key difference between the international weapons ban agreements that have been honored and the agreements that have not been honored is that the honored ones involved weapons of mass destruction (WMD). An effective ban on malicious AI requires the global community to first agree that such a form (or use) of AI would be a WMD.

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Author
Denise Simon
Date
February 4, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
Gerasimov Doctrine, Iran, Primikov Doctrine, Russia, Syria}

AI in War Means Deepfakes as Well as Killerbots

_{In its Gerasimov and Primikov doctrines of warfare, Russia makes this clear} _{Denise Simon

February 4, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

In 2013, Russian Army General Valery Gerasimov published a strategic doctrine (the Gerasimov Doctrine) where he described applying non-military activities, including false or fake stories and publications, trolls, gas-lighting and technology generally as a form of warfare, like combat. The use of audio and video deep-fakes is expanding in Ukraine, the Baltic States, Western nations, and Africa.

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
January 31, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
Killer robots, Killer Robots (book), military technology}

Iran Conflict Shows Why the US Needs Autonomous Lethal AI Weapons

_{The bipartisan National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence recently released a sobering report about the U.S. lagging in development of killer robots} _{Robert J. Marks

January 31, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

To remain competitive, the U.S. military must respond and adapt to new warfare technology including weapons using AI, sometimes called killer robots. This includes autonomous AI that acts on its own. Chillingly, unlike atomic weapons, the tools to construct lethal AI weapons are cheap and readily available to all.

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Author
News
Date
January 28, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Global Technology, Military

Tagged
CNS, Killer robots, Killer Robots (book), Robert J. Marks}

Robert J. Marks: Peace May Depend on Killer Robots

_{Calls for a ban on killer robots impact the United States but not the non-democratic nations who are developing them now} _{News

January 28, 2020

2

Artificial Intelligence, Global Technology, Military}

In an op-ed at CNS this morning, Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks summarizes his case, as an artificial intelligence expert, that the United States must remain competitive in military AI or, as it is called, “killer robots,” because hostile nations are forging ahead.

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Author
News
Date
January 27, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
killer drones, Killer Robots (book), killerbots, military technology, Robert J. Marks}

Killer Robots on the Radio

_{The issues around AI in warfare seem fairly simple until we look at them more closely} _{News

January 27, 2020

3

Artificial Intelligence, Military}

Can we afford to let hostile powers develop AI warfare and not do so ourselves? Artificial intelligence expert Robert J. Marks has been discussing the issue in podcasts with various hosts across the country.

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Author
News
Date
January 16, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Military

Tagged
Autonomous lethal weapons, Killer Robots (book), military technology, Robert J. Marks}

Book at a Glance: Robert J. Marks’s Killer Robots

_{What if ambitious nations such as China and Iran develop lethal AI military technology but the United States does not?} _{News

January 16, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Military}

Artificial intelligence expert Robert J. Marks tackles the contentious subject of military drones in his just-published book, The Case for Killer Robots: Why America’s Military Needs to Continue Development of Lethal AI. Many sources (30 countries, 110+ NGOs, 4500 AI experts, the UN Secretary General, the EU, and 26 Nobel Laureates) have called for these lethal AI weapons to be banned. Dr. Marks, a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University, disagrees. What if ambitious nations such as China and Iran develop lethal AI military technology but the United States does not? Nations that wish to maintain independence (sovereignty), he argues, must remain competitive in military AI. (“Advanced technology not only wins wars but gives pause to Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
July 29, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Global Technology, Military

Tagged
Daniel M. Ogden, espionage, Fundamental research exception, J. Reese Roth, Robert J. Marks}

When High Tech Must Be Kept Secret

_{Universities that do national defence research try to manage the tension between intellectual freedom and national security} _{News

July 29, 2019

6

Ethics, Global Technology, Military}

A plasma physics professor who interpreted the “fundamental research exception” too loosely ended up in jail.

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Author
Bradley A. Alaniz and Jed Macosko
Date
April 16, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Featured, Vladimir Putin, warfare}

Why AI Can’t Win Wars As If Wars Were Chess Games

_{Is Vladimir Putin right? Will whoever leads in AI rule the world? It’s not so simple} _{Bradley A. Alaniz and Jed Macosko

April 16, 2019

5

Artificial Intelligence, Military, Natural Intelligence}

Whichever country becomes a leader in the sphere of AI and IA will do well. But whichever countries end up following, mindlessly, the advice of these tools will do so at their own great peril.