From development to doctrine: the Pentagon fast-tracks AI

Donald Trump's administration has ordered military chiefs to incorporate Artificial Intelligence into almost everything that it does, and to do it quickly.

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How to Counter Fake News

by Peter L. Levin During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Macedonian teens looking to get paid for ad-clicks, Russian cyber sophisticates apparently looking to tilt the outcome, and some home…

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How War Affects Wildlife

[caption id="attachment_55255351" align="aligncenter" width="3500"] [/caption] by Karen Kaplan To the list of ways that humans are making it hard for zebras, giraffes and other large mammals to…

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Artificial Intelligence and Chinese Power

[caption id="attachment_55254998" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Security guard walk past the Chinese national flag at the Military Museum of Chinese People's Revolution on March 1, 2008 in…

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Is the Future Human?

by Bryn Haworth* In his book Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari is concerned with a human future that is no longer strictly human at all. It is a future that finally belongs to the geeks and to their…

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e-Estonia: Defending the Digital Frontier

[caption id="attachment_55254731" align="aligncenter" width="512"] Helen Popp[/caption] Maia Otarashvili* Ten years after experiencing debilitating cyber attacks from Russia, Estonia is more wired…

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Don't Blame the Robots

[caption id="attachment_55254429" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Robotics student Gildo Andreoni interacts with a Dexmart robotic hand built at the University of Bologna in the Robotville…

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How Poverty Changes the Brain

[caption id="attachment_55253462" align="aligncenter" width="4000"] A child works in a forge in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on July 29, 2015. School attendance is 'mandatory' for children aged 6 to 16 from…

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Mark Zuckerberg's Long March to China

[caption id="attachment_55252575" align="aligncenter" width="843"] BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 19: (CHINA OUT) Mark Zuckerberg, chairman, chief executive, and co-founder of the social networking website…

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