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The “National Security Presidential Memorandum” urges closer collaboration with AI companies — as long as they’re compliant with Pentagon demands — and orders a sweeping revision of Biden-era guardrails on military AI.

Palladyne plans to put new AI swarming software on the battle-proven Israeli drones and compete for contracts like the Army’s Long-Range Precision Munition (LRPM), CEO Ben Wolff told Breaking Defense.

A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a reporter working on a story about the extent to which AI, as a topic of research and an area of specialization demanded by employers, was becoming dominant in philosophy. Here’s one thing I said to her: People should be cautious when inferring how much philosophy of AI work is actually happening from how much philosophy of AI work they’re hearing about. AI is…

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The EO creates a “voluntary framework” for AI developers to give the government early access to their latest tech.

New AI capabilities are “lowering the barrier of entry” to exploit vulnerabilities, according to the Army’s chief data officer.

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Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? Has your department considered an AI policy but held off on writing or implementing it? If so, what issues, disputes, or questions have contributed to the delay? Does your department even have the institutional authority to have such a policy? Would it be better to not…

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“The way I’ve approached this — knowing how smaller companies work — is fast yeses and fast nos. The worst thing for a small company is to be dragged through a multi year process,” Pentagon CTO Emil Michael said.

A study by The Economist looked at how the employment prospects of college graduates have changed over the past few years as AI use by potential employers has increased. The concern is that firms will hire fewer people if they can use AI to complete the tasks that otherwise would have been handled by entry-level workers. Data about this has been mixed, so The Economist conducted its own study…

The forthcoming Wraith Shield software update uses the existing antenna to scan for drone control signals, identify enemy ones, and jam them, L3Harris executives told reporters.

DoD users tore through 20 billion token a day as Palantir’s Maven Smart System was “leveraged” to help plan and coordinate Operation Epic Fury’s 13,000 airstrikes on Iran, officials said.

Mythos is just the first of a new generation of AIs that can patch vulnerable code at superhuman speed, said Pentagon CTO Emil Michael and Cyber Policy chief Katie Sutton, downplaying the uniqueness of Anthropic.

Outgoing NRO Director Chris Scolese said the agency is expanding its work to allow analysts to understand how AI does its analysis.

In her first major speech since taking the reins at NGA, Lt. Gen. Michelle Bredenkamp also said the agency has stood up a new Rapid Capabilities Office to speed integration of innovative commercial tech.

“The path to AI enabled, allied intelligence advantage runs primarily through governance, not necessarily through additional capability,” said UK Royal Marine Maj. Gen. Paul Lynch, who directs NATO intelligence policy.

After exploring a Pacific-war scenario with cybersecurity executives from 14 tech firms, the Army wants to fast-track new AI tools — and thrash out new policy to allow more autonomy for AI “agents.”

“I wonder if these people have ever seen a student’s face when they finally understand something for the first time.” Jane Sloan Peters, a professor of religious studies and historical theologian at the University of Mount Saint Vincent, was talking with her students about changes she has made to her teaching so as to safeguard student learning from artificial intelligence when “a wave of sadness…

In 2024, a study found that “7–17% of the sentences in the reviews [of computer science manuscripts] were written by LLMs”. It was only a matter of time before this spread, and now it appears to have reached philosophy. Last year, a philosophy PhD student in the US submitted a paper to a well-known philosophy journal. They write: The paper was rejected a few months ago; the first reviewer left…

A Google Gemini tool on GenAI.mil allows Defense Department personnel to create their own AI agents to handle data and automate online tasks.

“I want you to move like somebody’s on your heels, and they’re about ready to eat you,” the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief AI officer, Maj. Gen. Robert Kinney, tells his team.

“The record strongly suggests that the reasons given for designating Anthropic a supply chain risk were pretextual and that [the government’s] real motive was unlawful retaliation,” said Judge Rita Lin.

“Anthropic’s got a strong case, stronger than it should … primarily because the President’s made ‘admissions against interest’” on social media, attorney Sean Timmons told Breaking Defense.

“It’s not just the problem of brazen cheating. In some ways, the more insidious threat LLMs pose to undergraduate learning is the promise of instant shortcuts.” . That’s Paul Sagar, Reader in Political Theory at King’s College London, writing at Unherd. He continues: Why struggle through that difficult article, why read that complicated book, why force yourself through the problem set, when the…

To what extent has the development of AI over the past several years led to non-academic work for academically-trained philosophers? AI raises questions across various domains of philosophical expertise, including philosophy of mind, ethics, philosophy of language, epistemology, decision theory, political philosophy, philosophy of computing, etc. What roles are philosophers playing in the firms…

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CEO Dario Amodei said he would still sue to overturn the designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” but he said the company was “having productive conversations with the Department of War” — which Pentagon CTO Emil Michael promptly denied.