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Oct 22, 2024 | 
practicesource.com | Ashley Deeks
In New Paper, Professor Ashley Deeks Examines Risks of Machines Initiating WarWar could unfold so rapidly in the future that nations may need to rely on machines and artificial intelligence to make split-second decisions to repel or carry out attacks. In her paper, Deeks urges Congress to create laws ensuring strong oversight to minimize risks associated with the use of AI in the resort to force.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
justsecurity.org | Ashley Deeks
At the heart of national security decisions lies a paradox: these decisions are among the most consequential a government can make, but often the least transparent and democratic. The “black box” of national security decision-making — driven by extensive classification and characterized by real difficulty overseeing executive actions — has expanded in the United States as executive power continues to grow.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Ashley Deeks |Mark Klamberg |Jen Patja
Ashley Deeks, Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Dr. Mark Klamberg, Professor at Stockholm University, Visiting Professor at American University, and Fellow with the Atlantic Council, join Lawfare's Tarbell Fellow Kevin Frazier and Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein to discuss the weaponization of AI.
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Dec 24, 2023 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Daniel Byman |Eugenia Lostri |Ashley Deeks
It's part two of our Lawfare year-end event. Yesterday, we brought you the headliner conversation with Adam Kinzinger. Today, it's three panels of Lawfare insiders talking about the year to come and the year that's passed. We did a panel on democracy, the Trump trials, and related matters. We did a panel on cybersecurity, cyber defense, and AI. And of course, we did a panel on foreign policy and the various crises that are overtaking American foreign policy.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Ashley Deeks
Over the past year, a range of presidential candidates and members of Congress have argued that the United States might benefit from conducting military strikes in Mexico against Mexican drug cartels and drug labs.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Ashley Deeks
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News reports leading up to the meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in November indicated that the United States sought to reach an agreement to keep autonomy out of nuclear command-and-control systems (C2)—or at least set up a formal dialogue on the issue.
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Apr 17, 2023 | 
lawfareblog.com | Ashley Deeks
On April 8, the Washington Post reported that members of Congress have “vowed to tackle AI.” The article describes the anxiety that is growing among lawmakers as they try to get a handle on what recent advances in AI portend. “Something is coming. We aren’t ready,” Senator Murphy tweeted. It will be good news if members of Congress are able to get smarter about what AI tools are, what they can and can’t do, and what good and bad uses of AI will realistically look like.
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Mar 28, 2023 | 
lawfareblog.com | Ashley Deeks
States are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence systems to enhance their national security decision-making. The real risks that states will deploy unlawful or unreliable national security AI (NSAI) make international regulations seem appealing, but approaches built on nuclear analogies are deeply flawed.
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Ashley Deeks
Trending Topics CNA Explains China ChatGPT Malaysia Ukraine invasion Climate change COVID-19 Budget 2023 Wellness Snap Insight Russia Commentary It would not matter from the perspective of international law whether the United States was using the MQ-9 drone to spy on military activities inside Russia, says this law professor.
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
newsable.asianetnews.com | Ashley Deeks
US military has released footage of mid-air encounter between Russian fighter jet and a US drone that was forced down over the Black Sea. An international law expert explores the matter further. By Ashley S. Deeks, Professor of Scholarly Research in Law, University of VirginiaThe details are disputed, but either way the result was the same: On March 14, 2023, a US drone crashed into the Black Sea after an encounter with Russian aircraft.
