Press Articles

AI for Disaster Response

• Eyes in the sky: Planet Labs satellites track a changing globe. CNN. March 1, 2023.
• From ‘paradise’ to hell: How a luxury development in Turkey became an earthquake death trap. Financial Times. February 27, 2023
• How AI can actually be helpful in disaster response. MIT Technology Review. February 20, 2023.
• Nach Menschenrechtsverstößen fahnden. Deutschlandfunk Kultur. April 14, 2022.
• Satellite Companies Join the Hunt for Russian War Crimes. POLITICO. April 6, 2022.
• California National Guard Using Satellites to Fight Wildfires. Air Force Magazine. September 8, 2020.
• Fighting Fires Together: xView 2 Prize Challenge Helps Automate Damage Assessments. NASA. June 25, 2020.
• JUST IN: Defense Innovation Unit to Sponsor Computer Vision Prize Challenge. National Defense Magazine. March 12, 2020.
• Bushfires: Astronaut Paul Scully-Power in ‘space age’ plan to save wildlife. The Australian. February 6, 2020.
• AI for natural disaster damage assessment challenge reaches final stages in California. The Sociable. January 8, 2020.
• DIU teams up with civilian agencies to start humanitarian AI challenge. Federal News Network. November 19, 2019.
• A Challenge to Automatically Assess Damaged Buildings After a Disaster. NASA. November 7, 2019.
• California has 33 million acres of forest. This company is training artificial intelligence to scour it all for wildfire.. The Washington Post. November 6, 2019.
• Can AI automate damage assessments after a disaster?. C4ISRNet. October 4, 2019.
• DIU challenge takes on algorithms to assess building damage. FedScoop. September 30, 2019.
• U.S. Military, Looking to Automate Post-Disaster Damage Recognition, Seeks a Winning Formula. IEEE Spectrum. September 26, 2019.
• Defense Innovation Unit launches new satellite imagery prize challenge. Space News. September 26, 2019.
• DOD Sponsors Artificial Intelligence Competition. SIGNAL Magazine. August 15, 2019.

AI to Detect Illegal Fishing

• AI as a Weapon to Defend the Seas from Illegal Fishing. Alaska Business. November 13, 2023.
• U.S. Fishing for Defense Tech to Protect International Waters. National Defense Magazine. January 20, 2022.
• Can We Spot Illegal Fishing Fleets from Space?. Defense One. August 4, 2021.
• DOD Announces AI Competition to Detect, Defeat Illegal Fishing. Department of Defense. July 22, 2021.
• Defense Innovation Unit to Sponsor Computer Vision Prize Challenge. National Defense Magazine. July 22, 2021.
• The Pentagon Wants Programmers’ Help to Catch IUU Fishing Activity. The Maritime Executive. July 22, 2021

AI for Climate Change

• Snowy with a chance for data. Berkeley Science Review. December 3, 2022.

AI and Space Policy

• Proliferate, Don’t Obliterate: How Responsive Launch Marginalizes Anti-Satellite Capabilities. War on the Rocks. September 21, 2023.
• Accelerating the Evolution of AI Export Controls. Tech Policy Press. September 21, 2023.
• Orbital hypersonic delivery systems threaten strategic stability. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. June 13, 2023.

AI and National Security

• AI Seoul Summit, U.S.-China AI Safety Readout, and the Zhousidun Dataset. Center for Strategic & International Studies. June 3, 2024.
• Import AI 374: China’s military AI dataset; platonic AI; brainlike convnets. Import AI Newsletter. May 27, 2024.

AI Safety

• Child sexual abuse material found on popular dataset shows risks for federal AI research. FedScoop. January 22, 2024.

AI Governance

• Corporate Strategies For AI Safety And Governance. Forbes. November 17, 2023.
• Does OpenAI’s Non-Profit Ownership Structure Actually Matter? Forbes. October 13, 2023.

COVID-19

• Naval Academy Participates in Rapid Analysis of Threat Exposure (Rate) Study. US Naval Academy. December 14, 2020.
• Detecting Change With Artificial Intelligence. SIGNAL Magazine. December 1, 2020.
• Thousands of American Troops to Take Part in Covid-19 Early-Detection Study. Wall Street Journal. September 22, 2020.
• AI Aids DOD in Early Detection of COVID-19. Department of Defense News. September 22, 2020.
• The US Military’s Latest Wearables Can Detect Illness Two Days Before You Get Sick. Defense One. September 22, 2020.

Reports

• Into the Storm: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve California’s Disaster Reslience. Partnership for Public Service + Microsoft. July 9, 2020.

Videos

• Building Damage Assessment from Remote Sensed Imagery. May 1, 2020.
• Human–Machine Teaming and AI. January 30, 2020.
• AI in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response. September 18, 2019.
• What is Ransomware?. September 12, 2019.
• Efficient NetFlow Partitioning via Minimum Cuts. July 2, 2019.
• Learning by Observing via Inverse Reinforcement Learning. March 21, 2019.
• You Can Prove It With Less: Data Science Tasks Using Challenge-Based Acquisition. October 25, 2018.
• Deep Learning in Depth: The Good, the Bad, and the Future. June 7, 2018.