As I discussed in a previous post, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) is meeting for the second time to discuss...

Does Title 10 impose a legal barrier on U.S. Cyber Command conducting operations outside of the Pentagon’s own networks?

Election security appears to have gained momentum on Capitol Hill. Days before lawmakers adjourned for the Easter recess, the Senate intelligence committee rolled out bipartisan policy recommendations an...

The growing military-use of predictive algorithms and artificial intelligence is stirring up corporate and academic protests. Consider, for instance, a recent Reuters report that 50 AI researchers from 3...

The New York Times reported on March 24 that the FBI and Justice Department are again pushing for extraordinary access to encrypted data. This will certainly set off yet another round of the long-standin...

Last week, the Washington Post reported a disturbing anecdote about President Trump’s visit to the CIA on his first full day in office:

Based on trends in advancing robotics technology, many experts believe autonomous—and even lethal autonomous—robots are an inevitable and imminent development.

When the government argues that it’s “going dark” because of ubiquitous end-to-end encryption, it often stresses how encryption thwarts counterterrorism investigations. When FBI Director Christopher Wray...