Latest in Artificial Intelligence
The new executive order presents a good first step toward a national strategy on AI, but it remains incomplete—especially on the issue of immigration.
On Monday, President Trump issued the following executive order on artificial intelligence. The White House provided a summary of the order, and the full order is below.
White House Summary
There are complicated questions about how explainable artificial intelligence might impact assessments of the legality of autonomous weapon systems.
A new project addresses how artificial intelligence might change how states decide to use force against one another.
Some experts view AI as neither artificial nor intelligent—just computer code.
How might adversaries apply AI to the vast amount of data that they collect about American to understand us, predict what we will do and manipulate our behavior in ways that advantage them?
There is value in putting down a marker that using the technology this way is not acceptable.
How do we identify, understand and protect our most valuable AI assets?
How do we protect the valuable national asset of artificial intelligence against a range of threats from hostile foreign actors, and how do we protect ourselves against the threat from AI in the hands of adversaries?
A review of Paul Scharre’s “Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War” (W.W. Norton, 2018).