Professor @Penn @perryworldhouse. Former DASD for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities. Defense, #AI, and innovation. Always Boston. Views my own.
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Michael C. Horowitz retweeted
@Lauren_A_Kahn and @mchorowitz (@CFR_org) propose a framework for assessing how autonomous a weapon system is as well as how it compares to existing systems. #AI cfr.org/articles/the-autonom…
FWIW, not sure those things are mutually exclusive. Doesn't all the "normal tech" view require is thinking that past general purpose tech helps us understand likely AI impacts?
Want to understand the AI weapons debate? Check out my new explainer with @Lauren_A_Kahn with @CFR_org here - one key point that the frontier AI safety + autonomous weapon systems issues are different and require different policy approaches! cfr.org/articles/the-autonom…
Michael C. Horowitz retweeted
Belatedly sharing @mchorowitz’s important piece.
“Iran has shown that weaker states are no longer priced out of the military power game, and the United States has discovered that stronger states are not guaranteed the upper hand in major battles.”
foreignaffairs.com/iran/how-…
Michael C. Horowitz retweeted
ICYMI - PWH's @mchorowitz and Georgetown's @Lauren_A_Kahn write about the definition problem *still* plaguing the debate surrounding autonomous weapons for @CFR_org. bit.ly/3UuU5s2
Michael C. Horowitz retweeted
“The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran shows that the age of precise mass is here,” writes @mchorowitz. “Tehran has demonstrated how less powerful countries can stymie more powerful ones in the modern battlefield.”
foreignaffairs.com/iran/how-…
Michael C. Horowitz retweeted
Ever wondered what the difference b/w killer robots, autonomous weapons systems, lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), and AI-enabled weapons? In our latest visual explainer for @CFR_org @mchorowitz and I created a taxonomy to break it down.
cfr.org/articles/the-autonom…
There are real frontier AI safety issues - but those are different than issues surrounding autonomous weapon systems and we'll make better policy choices if we understand that!
The debate over autonomous weapons and the debate over frontier AI safety are about different problems, argue experts @mchorowitz and @Lauren_A_Kahn. To regulate them, policymakers need a framework to address it, they write.
“Everyone wants autonomy to be a clear binary, yes or no. . . . In reality, autonomy is a spectrum defined by the technology being used and the human choices that are made to employ a weapon system. The question isn't, ‘Is it autonomous?' but rather, ‘How autonomous is it?'”
“What few people understand is how much autonomy is already in modern military systems—and has been for decades,” they write.
Read their analysis: cfr.org/articles/the-autonom…
Michael C. Horowitz retweeted
Really important contribution to the national security and LAWS dialogue here by @mchorowitz and @Lauren_A_Kahn! Strongly recommend!
🚨🚨 brand new from me & @Lauren_A_Kahn - explainer on autonomous weapons (including cool graphics!) and how the AI and weapons issue is different than the frontier AI safety issue! Check it out and share! cfr.org/articles/the-autonom… cc @CFR_org
Essential - most current or planned autonomous weapon systems have nothing to do with frontier AI!
Michael C. Horowitz retweeted
@mchorowitz and I have found it most helpful to think of every weapon as fitting into one of 5 possible types. There are 3 basic types: unguided, semi-autonomous, and autonomous. Semi-autonomous and autonomous weapon systems can then ea be either supervised or unsupervised
Check out this incredible thread from @Lauren_A_Kahn explaining everything you need to know on AI and weapons, based on our @CFR_org piece! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Ever wondered what the difference b/w killer robots, autonomous weapons systems, lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), and AI-enabled weapons? In our latest visual explainer for @CFR_org @mchorowitz and I created a taxonomy to break it down.
cfr.org/articles/the-autonom…
🚨🚨 brand new from me & @Lauren_A_Kahn - explainer on autonomous weapons (including cool graphics!) and how the AI and weapons issue is different than the frontier AI safety issue! Check it out and share! cfr.org/articles/the-autonom… cc @CFR_org
Michael C. Horowitz retweeted
The debate over autonomous weapons and the debate over frontier AI safety are about different problems, argue experts @mchorowitz and @Lauren_A_Kahn. To regulate them, policymakers need a framework to address it, they write.
“Everyone wants autonomy to be a clear binary, yes or no. . . . In reality, autonomy is a spectrum defined by the technology being used and the human choices that are made to employ a weapon system. The question isn’t, ‘Is it autonomous?’ but rather, ‘How autonomous is it?’”
“What few people understand is how much autonomy is already in modern military systems—and has been for decades,” they write.
Read their analysis: cfr.org/articles/the-autonom…
Low cost precise mass is shaping wars around the world - time for the US to adapt!
The war in Iran has shown that the age of “precise mass—or high-volume, low-cost, precision-guided weapons—is well underway,” writes @mchorowitz.
foreignaffairs.com/iran/how-…
Michael C. Horowitz retweeted
When it comes to offensive capacities, “the military gap between rich states and poor ones” has closed, writes @mchorowitz. How can the United States maintain its edge in this new era of warfare?
foreignaffairs.com/iran/how-…
Michael C. Horowitz retweeted
1/ Article now officially out in @ISQ_Jrnl!
Every day, we hear about how disruptive technologies are "breaking" international security.
AI. Quantum. Biotech. Hypersonics.
If alarm bells are sounding, isn't it time to regulate?
Yet policymakers almost always wait. 🧵
Michael C. Horowitz retweeted
Fantastic time for Foreign Affairs to re-up this excellent @mchorowitz piece.
You don’t need to match forces if you can enforce de facto air or sea blockades, or take energy or information infrastructure offline with cheap, precise mass.
A new era of warfare has begun—one in which “weaker states are no longer priced out of the military power game” and “stronger states are not guaranteed the upper hand in major battles,” writes @mchorowitz.
foreignaffairs.com/iran/how-…