
OODA Trends 2019
OODA Founders Matt Devost & Bob Gourley provide their eccentric take on emerging technology trends for 2019.

AI Will Test American Values In The Battlefield
How will military leaders deal with AI that may treat troops as expendable assets to win the “game”.
U.S. Spies Want to Know How to Identify Compromised AI
“The U.S. government’s research arm for intelligence organizations, IARPA, is looking for ideas on how to detect ‘Trojan’ attacks on artificial intelligence, according to government procurement documents. Here’s the problem the agency wants to solve: At a simple level, modern image-recognition AI learns from analyzing many images of an object. If
AI lie detector tests to get trial run at EU airports
“Passengers at some European airports will soon be questioned by artificial intelligence-powered lie detectors at border checkpoints, as a European Union trial of the technology is set to begin. Fliers will be asked a series of travel-related questions by a virtual border guard avatar, and artificial intelligence will monitor their
Federal CIO: Artificial Intelligence Initiatives Will Flop Without Quality Data
With all the talk about Artificial Intelligence, little has been said about developments or quality protocols in data management. And with a technology that is only as good as the data that enables it, this is a problem. “If we don’t make the right investments on the data side, it’s
Can this AI find a terrorist in a surveillance video?
American video analytics firm IronYun recently pitched AI software that can screen live feeds simultaneously (or historical video data) and make it searchable for items and people in the videos. For example, analysts could search for a suspect that was wearing a black shirt, white shoes, and carrying a brown
Is informationalization the modern equivalent of industrialization? How the U.S. Should Respond to China’s Informatization Strategy
Is “informationalization” the modern equivalent of industrialization? Chinese President Xi Jinping thinks so. In the same way that industrialization reshaped the economic structure of human life and interactions around the world, “informationalization” is transforming everything from everyday consumer products to military capabilities. This War on the Rocks commentary tracks the

The Future of AI Policy is Largely Unwritten
Congressman Will Hurd talks with OODA Loop about Artificial Intelligence policy and his newly released committee report calling for a national AI strategy.
China Will Close Artificial Intelligence Gap by End of 2018, Lawmakers Warn
“Artificial intelligence technologies are capable of disrupting every aspect of society and the United States must do more to maintain leadership in the area, the leaders of a House panel said in a report released Tuesday. Artificial intelligence ‘has the potential to disrupt every sector of society in both anticipated
An Air Force ‘Way of Swarm’: Using Wargaming and Artificial Intelligence to Train Drones
Animals swarms in nature are providing insight into U.S. military development of drone swarms operating outside of a centralized command system. War on the Rocks writes, “now imagine being able to deploy a collection of drones on the scale and magnitude of a locust swarm. Indeed, the same laws that