The Great Tech Race of our Time
SUBSCRIBER+MEMBER EXCLUSIVE – The battle for semiconductors, a core ingredient of both basic and advanced technologies – such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) – has long […] More
Posts Tagged ‘AI’
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
Is AI the right fit for predictive military maintenance?
OPINION — The DoD is continually challenged to provide battle-ready ground combat systems, ships, submarines and aircraft to its warfighters, spending nearly $90 billion each […] More
Abundant Promise and Challenge in Deep Tech
EXPERT Q&A — The 2022 National Defense Strategy, which the DoD released in October, commits to promoting deep tech R&D in areas including directed energy, hypersonics, integrated sensing, […] More
The Future of Artificial Intelligence
BOOK REVIEW: The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI By Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie / MIT Press Reviewed by […] More
Preparing for Great Power Competition in AI and Intelligence
A Virtual Briefing Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 1:30-2:30pm EST This discussion will cover the promise of AI, the growing importance of Open Source to the […] More
The Urgency of the Moment for Congress on AI and National Security
(Editor’s Note: This article is the fifth and final article in a series first published by our friends at Just Security that is dives into the foundational […] More
Artificial Intelligence in the IC: Culture is Critical
Corin Stone is a Scholar-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor at the Washington College of Law. Stone is on leave from the Office of the Director of […] 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
Reviewing National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution
BOOK REVIEW: The Centaur’s Dilemma: National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution By James E. Baker / Brookings Institution Press Reviewed by W. Renn […] 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
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 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
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
Burn-In Gives us a Glimpse of the Near Future. Are we ready?
BOOK REVIEW: Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution by Peter W. Singer and August Cole “The Cipher Brief has become the most popular […] More
Book Review: One Vision of Future US-China Competition
BOOK REVIEW: Reigning the Future: AI, 5G, Huawei and the Next 30 Years of the US-China Rivalry by Dennis Wang “The Cipher Brief has become […] 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
The Future of AI and Cybersecurity
Ben Buchanan recently testified at a House Homeland Security Subcommittee Meeting on Preparing for the Future: An Assessment of Emerging Cyber Threats. He is a Senior […] 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
High-Tech Counterterrorism in China: Snapshots of a Dystopian Future
Bottom Line Up Front China has created a highly controlled environment in Xinjiang where it monitors ethnic Uighurs, relying on emerging technologies to track […] More
Who Should Give the Kill Command?
The Department of Defense is seeking a significant budget increase for further development of lethal autonomous weapons programs (LAWS). While technology and the use of weapons […] More
How Emerging AI Technologies Can Help Us Think ‘Smarter’
Every morning, analysts, operators, and policymakers arrive at their desks to read the latest news and intelligence reporting that has come in during the past […] More
Beijing’s Drive Towards Global Technological Supremacy
This brief is part of The Cipher Brief’s 2018 Annual Threat Report. Bottom Line: There are three prominent technological security concerns for the United States […] More