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Serving My Country – My Patriotic Duty

Creative Greenius

While we honor today the service, sacrifice and loss of all our military members, there was no threat to our homeland, our freedom or our democracy from the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the Iraqis, or the Afghanistan people. My personal sense of patriotism demands that I defend this island, whatever the cost may be.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

Cars That Think

The following day (which happened to coincide with the short-lived Wagner Group rebellion ), we rewrote our algorithms so that our system mapped only the locations where suspected land mines were identified—a more scalable solution for our future work. demonstration previously described.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

Cars That Think

By the war’s end, with “not quite one arm between four persons, and exactly two legs between six,” these self-taught amputee-weaponsmiths decide to repurpose their skills toward a new projectile: a rocket ship. soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. cutting-edge prosthetic devices on the market.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

Cars That Think

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). The blistering late-afternoon wind ripped across Camp Taji , a sprawling U.S. military base just north of Baghdad.

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