Andy and Dave discuss the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office under the U.S. Department of Energy. DARPA announces Context Reasoning for Autonomous Teaming (CREATE), a new program to investigate team between groups of systems that have limited centralized coordination. Defense One and Nextgov sponsored a one-day “Genius Machines” conference in Hawaii, where it was revealed that AI is being developed to predict Chinese and Russian movement in the Pacific. MIT Lincoln Lab releases a large data set for public safety, which includes images of flooding and other disasters. And a video appears to show a Tesla driver asleep in a moving car. Finally, Russia expert Sam Bendett joins Andy and Dave to discuss his latest article in Defense One, on the draft of the Russian AI strategy.

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