Michael Rühle, August 16th 2019, NATO Defense College https://css.ethz.ch/en/services/digital-library/articles/article.html/57b662f0-3f49-4d32-9ac2-11e4aa79ffdc Michael Rühle writes that following Russia’s use of hybrid warfare in Ukraine, it wouldn’t take long before the Western strategic community would examine how to best deter hybrid threats. After all, deterrence was the central paradigm of Western security throughout the Cold War. However, Rühle contends […]Read More

Jack Corrigan, August 6th 2019, NextGov https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/08/darpa-taking-deepfake-problem/158980/ The Defense Department is looking to build tools that can quickly detect deepfakes and other manipulated media amid the growing threat of “large-scale, automated disinformation attacks.” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on Tuesday announced it would host a proposers day for an upcoming initiative focused on curbing […]Read More

Wired Opinion, August 15th 2019, https://www.wired.com/story/ai-algorithms-need-drug-trials/ IMAGINE A COUPLE of caffeine-addled biochemistry majors late at night in their dorm kitchen cooking up a new medicine that proves remarkably effective at soothing colds but inadvertently causes permanent behavioral changes. Those who ingest it become radically politicized and shout uncontrollably in casual conversation. Still, the concoction sells to billions of […]Read More