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In AI and the Art of War, the Chief Intelligence Officer of Microsoft's National Security Group, Paul Rodrigues, explains the contemporary realities of artificial intelligence in the context of national security, defense, and warfare in stunning detail. Dr. Rodrigues draws on his extensive experience supporting the AI efforts of US federal customers and the defense industrial base to explain what modern AI is, how it works, the problems it solves, and the risks it creates. AI and the Art of War offers original discussions of language AI―including Large Language Models―computer vision, geospatial AI, and agentic AI and AI reasoning capabilities. It examines how these technologies interact with national security initiatives and policies, like DARPA, IARPA, JAIC, and a variety of federal laws and executive orders. You'll also find: Informed walkthroughs of emerging AI threats, including propaganda, powerful nonstate actors, and financial system insecurity Explorations of AI pipeline security vulnerabilities, including prompt injection attacks and prompt leaking Obstacles to the responsible use of artificial intelligence, like bias, and the inherent drawbacks to ""black box"" algorithms

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Paul Rodrigues is the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of Microsoft's National Security Group and Partner (NSGP) Team, where he supports AI efforts across US federal customers and the defense industrial base. Before Microsoft, Dr. Rodrigues was Principal Director of Data Science Innovation and the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Science Director at Accenture Federal Services (AFS), where he coordinated NLP efforts across Accenture's US federal client accounts. He started and led the AFS NLP Community of Practice, a group comprised of over 350 members. Dr. Rodrigues played a pivotal role in training upwards of 700 professionals, including data scientists, machine learning engineers, and data visualization specialists, within the AFS Data and AI Practice. Rick Adamson is an award-winning voice artist with more than twenty years' experience in voiceovers, spoken word events, event announcing, and children's media, as well as commercials for well-known international corporations. He has narrated numerous television and film documentaries, including Croatia, co-narrated with Martin Sheen. His audiobook narration includes more than two dozen major books, as well as dozens of early-reader titles for juveniles. He won the prestigious Audie Award in 2011 for Best Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction for In a Heartbeat, and he was among the finalists for the 2006 Audie Award for Best Personal Development/Motivational Work for Younger Next Year. He earned an AudioFile Earphones Award for the ensemble narration of Rough Water.

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