The Singularity Saints Podcast

014: Technology and Warfare, PT 1

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How will the emergence of new technologies change the face of warfare? How will conflicts play out in the future? In this episode we discuss select technology in development for the battlefield, separating some fact from fiction, and considering the risks. This is part 1 of 2.

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Topics:

  • Changes in warfare
  • Asymmetrical warfare
  • Exoskeletons:
    • Hype and reality
  • Termination of development programs
  • Fort Drum: ExoSkeleton Testing
  • https://www.army.mil/article/214540/exoskeleton_event_brings_teams_together_to_advance_exoskeleton_technologyDr.
  • Mellissa Flag –Director Army Research Laboratory, Women in Defense Conference
  • https://exoskeletonreport.com/2019/02/following-the-u-s-military-exoskeleton-trends-is-it-going-anywhere/
  • Laser weapons
    • Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin CEO, and laser development
  • https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/06/future-weapons-lockheed-martin-pitches-new-war-tech-to-pentagon.html
  • Air Force SHiELD program
  • https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a27376996/fighter-jet-laser/
  • Uses of lasers in combat
  • Artificial Intelligence and Warfare
    • AI and combing through data
  • An AI arms race?
  • AI and training
  • Ai and Cybersecurity
  • Autonomous Warfare
  • https://www.sipri.org/research/armament-and-disarmament/emerging-military-and-security-technologies/autonomy-weapon-systemse
  • Hypersonic flight
  • https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/hypersonic-flight-technology-passes-a-hugely-significant-milestone.html
  • AI and OODA Loop
  • AI, politics, and social stability
  • Predictability and AI risk
  • AI and Nuclear Risk
  • Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk: Euro-Atlantic Perspectives.
  • https://www.sipri.org/news/2019/artificial-intelligence-strategic-stability-and-nuclear-risk-euro-atlantic-perspectives-new-sipri
  • MAD Nuclear Doctrine and Destabilization with AI
  • Human Augmentation
    • Genetic Alteration
  • Nanotechnology
  • Joachim Schummer, Department of Philosophy, University of Darmstadt
  • http://www.joachimschummer.net/papers/2008_Nano-NBIC-Convergence_Maasen-et-al.pdf
  • National Science Foundation report of societal application of nanotech
  • Ideal human expectation and military ideals
  • DARPA and Human augmentation
  • Technology empowering asymmetrical warfare
    • Peter Singer, a leading expert on the changing character of conflict
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/us-will-face-more-deadlier-harder-to-defeat-insurgents-in-future-2019-5?amp%3Butm_medium=referral
  • https://d1y8sb8igg2f8e.cloudfront.net/documents/Insurgency_in_2030_2019-04-22_161317.pdf
  • The “low barrier of entry” for new military dangers

    • Verse Reference:

    • 2 Timoth 1:7

     

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