TUESDAY PDB – If we pause our research on Artificial Intelligence (AI), only China and Russia will gain. The next fear on A.I.: Hollywood’s killer robots become the military’s tools.
U.S. national security officials are warning about the potential for the new technology to upend war, cyber conflict and even the decisions to use nuclear weapons.
This is why some experts and AI luminaries have proposed a pause on AI research.
But the idea of a six-month pause in developing the next generations of ChatGPT and similar software is a bad idea: The Chinese won’t wait, and neither will the Russians.
“If we stop, guess who’s not going to stop: potential adversaries overseas,” the Pentagon’s chief information officer, John Sherman, said on Wednesday. “We’ve got to keep moving.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here’s a roundup of today’s other top stories.
Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING – the PDB:
HOMELAND SECURITY
Title 42 order nears end: Abbott sends Guard’s Texas Tactical Border Force to El Paso. Gov. Greg Abbott early Monday announced that he was deploying a specially trained elite unit of the National Guard to hot spots along the Rio Grande as a record jump in unlawful immigration is expected.
MOSTLY HE APPEARS MENTALLY ILL – FBI probes how failed soldier turned Texas mall shooter. Investigators have not yet made public what drove Army veteran Mauricio Garcia to open fire at a Texas outlet mall on Saturday, killing 8 people. But a picture is emerging of a failed soldier with alleged white supremacist beliefs.
CHINA THREAT
‘Everybody is worried’: China raids offices of consultancy firm Capvision in widening industry crackdown. China’s state security authorities raided multiple offices of the international advisory firm, part of a broader crackdown on the consulting industry as Beijing tightens control over what it considers sensitive information related to national security.
DISA embarks on new reshuffle to better align to China threat. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is to begin a wave of reorganization to help it keep up with strategic threats — specifically from China.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
US set to announce $1.2 billion aid package to Ukraine with counteroffensive looming. The aid package will be sent as early as Tuesday.
Britain prepares to send long-range missiles to Ukraine. It is also pushing Team Biden into providing Ukraine with weapons that can reach further into Russian-held territory.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 440. Kyiv’s mayor has said Russia fired 60 Iranian-made kamikaze drones, including 36 at Kyiv, all of which were shot down. However, debris killed at least four people.
Russia is sending museum pieces into war, but experts say they may still be effective. A cargo train loaded with tanks chugs along under the crisp, spring sun. “Wow,” a woman says. “This is the second train, there was one like it just before.”
Russia bans drones, jet skis, ride-hailing ahead of WWII parade. Russia enacted a major security clampdown in its largest cities ahead of Tuesday’s annual commemorations marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
US, NATO missile defense exercise kicks off in Atlantic amid Russian show of force. Russia’s military was making its presence felt in waters near northern Europe as the U.S. and its NATO allies prepared for a missile defense exercise that began Monday in the North Atlantic.
US-Finnish defense pact could bolster Nordic F-35 footprint. U.S. forces could gain access to a number of military bases near Russian borders if ongoing negotiations with Finland on a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) prove successful.
DISGRACEFUL – Preparing Canada for a new generation of security challenges. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau privately told NATO officials that Canada will never meet NATO’s defense-spending target of 2 percent of GDP. While shocking, it surprised few Canadian foreign policy and defense experts.
BIDEN’S AFGHAN DISASTER
Afghanistan fallout: Refugees given reprieve to stay in US as tensions flare over congressional investigation. Refugees who fled Afghanistan during the chaotic Biden retreat are getting a temporary reprieve from an immigration deadline set to hit later this year. This comes as Congress demands Team Biden turn over documents on the withdrawal.
US MILITARY
MESSAGING – US submarines are popping up more often and it’s not clear why. A U.S. nuclear-armed submarine will make a publicly announced visit to South Korea within months, prompting debate about the wisdom of a heightened public role for the Navy’s “silent service.”
In a first, Reaper makes highway landing. During a military exercise in Wyoming, an MQ-9 Reaper made history by conducting its first highway landing alongside what the Air Force says is the greatest number of aircraft to pull off the tactic.
END of PDB
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