AI-Powered Adversaries are Gearing Up to Undermine Elections
OPINION — Last December, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) declassified an Intelligence Community Assessment and a memorandum on how foreign adversaries […] More
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Information Quality is a Democratic Necessity in the Age of AI
OPINION — Trust in institutions, to include government, media, financial institutions, and education continues to decline as noted in several recent public opinion polls. Given […] More
As Government Leans in on AI, Security is Big Concern
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – As U.S. Government Executives are working to implement the Biden Administration’s new Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence, (AI) they are not […] More
Generative AI for National Security
SPONSORED / OPINION — While the National Security community works to scale the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), generative AI has […] More
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Warning Signs for How Generative AI Will Impact the Next Election
OPINION – As state and non-state actors aim to disrupt elections by any means available while still affording plausible deniability, one of the newest tools […] More
What AI Can – and Can’t – Do for US Intelligence
OPINION — Last month marked the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, begun after the September 11th 2001 al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington […] More
The Drone Series: A New Battle in the Air
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE: The presence of drones/UAV’s in armed conflicts as varied as Syria, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Ukraine is not only influencing military tactics and strategy but it’s […] More
Artificial Intelligence and the Intelligence Community
This article was first published by our friends at JustSecurity. Corin R. Stone is a Scholar-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor at the Washington College of Law. […] More
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the IC
The Cipher Brief’s Academic Incubator partners with national security-focused programs from colleges and Universities across the country share the work of the next generation of […] More
The Robot, the Targeter and the Future of U.S. National Security
Eric Washabaugh, Former CIA Targeting & Technology Manager Eric Washabaugh served as a targeting and technology manager at the CIA, where he served from 2006 […] More
A New Warfighting Paradigm
OPINION — “Americans have not yet seriously grappled with how profoundly the AI (Artificial Intelligence) revolution will impact society, the economy, and national security,” is […] More
Forget the AI Race. Let’s Invest in a Data Grid for AI.
Akash “Aki” Jain is President of Palantir USG, Inc. where he focuses on Artificial Intelligence, USG Technical Engagement, Enterprise Data Management and Cloud Architecture. Private […] More
What COVID looks like below the surface of the election
OPINION — On August 6, 2020, an unusual, two-year, $870,000 contract for artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine imaging related to COVID-19 was awarded to Bunkerhill […] More
The Military’s Mission: Artificial Intelligence in the Cockpit
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently hosted the AlphaDogfight Trials putting artificial intelligence technology from eight different organizations up against human pilots. In […] More
The Future of Lethal AI Capabilities and Military Aviation
In the aftermath of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) recent AlphaDogfight Trials that saw AI defeat a human F-16 pilot in a simulated […] More
Will Machine Learning Supercharge Online Disinformation?
This Academic Incubator column is part of a partnership with the Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, presenting regular expert […] More
Congress Needs to Keep Up with AI
OPINION –The Defense Department’s unclassified investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown from $600 million five years ago, to a proposed $2.5 billion for fiscal […] More
How Machine Learning Impacts National Security
In the latest edition of our State Secrets podcast, Cipher Brief COO Brad Christian talks with Brian Raymond who works for Primer, one of our […] More
China’s Access to Foreign AI Technology
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies provides great potential to businesses that are able to harness the opportunities it presents, but AI also poses […] More