Teaching Technology, Innovation, and Modern War at Stanford, Part 5: Autonomy and Defense in the Tw

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Teaching Technology, Innovation, and Modern War at Stanford, Part 5: Autonomy and Defense in the Twenty-First Century

Steve Blank | November 9, 2020
Teaching Technology, Innovation, and Modern War at Stanford, Part 5: Autonomy and Defense in the Twenty-First Century

Editor’s note: Stanford University is hosting a brand-new class this fall—Technology, Innovation, and Modern War. Steve Blank, who teaches the course along with Joe Felter and Raj Shah, is writing about each class session—offering Modern War Institute readers an incredible opportunity to learn about the intersection of technology and war and hear from remarkable guest speakers. Read about previous sessions here.
Class Nine

Today’s topic was autonomy and modern war.

Some of the readings for this class session included DoD Directive 3000.09: Autonomy in Weapons Systems, “Defense Primer: U.S. Policy on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems,” “International Discussions Concerning Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems,” “Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2),” “A New Joint Doctrine for an Era of Multi-Domain Operations,” and “Six Ways the U.S. Isn’t Ready for Wars of the Future.”

Autonomy and The Department of Defense

Our last two class sessions focused on AI and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (the JAIC,) DoD’s organization chartered to insert AI across the entire Department of Defense. In this class session Maynard Holliday of RAND describes the potential of autonomy in DoD.

Maynard was the senior technical advisor to the under secretary of defense for acquis

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