Competition between the US and China to deploy military drone swarms could fuel the global arms race

As their rivalry intensifies, American and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial intelligence work together like a swarm of bees to overwhelm an enemy. The planners envision a scenario in which hundreds, even thousands, of machines engage in … Read more

The pitfalls of impression-based technology policy analysis

In late 2022, OpenAI released a Transformer-based Large Language Model (LLM) called ‘ChatGPT’. Against the expectations of OpenAI staff, ChatGPT became the fastest growing web-based app in history, reaching 100 million active users in two months (beaten only by Meta’s Threads). The first public impressions of ChatGPT had both sublime qualities and ominous portents. In … Read more