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Press Coverage

AI for Disaster Response

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/20/1068824/ai-actually-helpful-disaster-response-turkey-syria-earthquake/

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/06/satellite-russian-war-crimes-00023386

https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/our-impact/news/fighting-fires-together-xview-2-prize-challenge-helps-automate-damage-assessments

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/06/california-has-million-acres-forest-this-company-is-training-artificial-intelligence-scour-it-all-wildfire/

https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/our-impact/story/challenge-automatically-assess-damaged-buildings-after-disaster

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/defense-department-launches-disastrous-computer-vision-contest

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2020/3/12/defense-innovation-unit-to-sponsor-computer-vision-prize-challenge

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/science/bushfires-astronaut-paul-scullypower-in-space-age-plan-to-save-wildlife/news-story/b51795c4612c77213d387c995fa17b9f

https://sociable.co/technology/ai-natural-disaster-damage-assessment-california/

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2019/11/diu-teams-up-with-civilian-agencies-to-start-humanitarian-ai-challenge/

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/satelliten-bilder-krieg-100.html

https://www.airforcemag.com/california-national-guard-using-satellites-to-fight-wildfires/

https://www.c4isrnet.com/intel-geoint/2019/10/04/can-ai-automate-damage-assessments-after-a-disaster/

https://www.fedscoop.com/xview2-challenge-building-damage-disaster-recovery/

https://spacenews.com/defense-innovation-unit-launches-new-satellite-imagery-prize-challenge/

https://www.afcea.org/content/dod-sponsors-artificial-intelligence-competition

AI to Detect Illegal Fishing

https://www.akbizmag.com/industry/fisheries/illegal-fishing-ai/

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/1/20/us-fishing-for-defense-tech-to-protect-international-waters

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/08/can-we-spot-illegal-fishing-fleets-space/184300/

https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2703739/dod-announces-ai-competition-to-detect-defeat-illegal-fishing/

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2020/3/12/defense-innovation-unit-to-sponsor-computer-vision-prize-challenge

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/the-pentagon-wants-programmers-help-to-spot-iuu-fishing

AI for Climate Change

https://berkeleysciencereview.com/article/2022/12/04/snowy-with-a-chance-of-data

AI, National Security, and Public Policy

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2025/01/how-deepseek-changed-future-aiand-what-means-national-security/402594/

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/97924662-a3db-44af-9875-d22023f945f1

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/investing/stocks-shares/deepseek-sparks-ai-market-chaos-is-now-the-time-to-buy-up/

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/01/25/la-chine-talonne-les-americains-dans-la-course-a-l-intelligence-artificielle_6514703_3234.html

https://on.ft.com/4jwunLy

https://time.com/7204164/china-ai-advances-chips/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458860-tencent-seems-unaffected-by-us-ai-chip-export-ban-research-shows

https://www.csis.org/podcasts/ai-policy-podcast/ai-seoul-summit-us-china-ai-safety-readout-and-zhousidun-dataset

https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-374-chinas-military-ai

https://warontherocks.com/2023/09/proliferate-dont-obliterate-how-responsive-launch-marginalizes-anti-satellite-capabilities/

https://techpolicy.press/accelerating-the-evolution-of-ai-export-controls/

https://thebulletin.org/2023/06/orbital-hypersonic-delivery-systems-threaten-strategic-stability/

AI Safety and Governance

https://fedscoop.com/ai-federal-research-database-laion-csam/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timabansal/2023/11/17/corporate-strategies-for-ai-safety-and-governance/?sh=4e5013c327aa

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timabansal/2023/10/13/does-openais-non-profit-ownership-structure-actually-matter/?sh=2d5548317d18

COVID-19

https://www.usna.edu/NewsCenter/2020/12/Naval_Academy_Participates_in_Rapid_Analysis_of_Threat_Exposure_Rate_Study.php

https://www.afcea.org/content/detecting-change-artificial-intelligence

https://www.wsj.com/articles/thousands-of-american-troops-to-take-part-in-covid-19-early-detection-study-11600772402

https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2356086/ai-aiding-dod-in-early-detection-of-covid-19-say-technologists/

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/09/militarys-latest-wearables-can-detect-illness-two-days-you-get-sick/168664/

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.