Trendwatch Privacy, Security, Defense: March 13, 2020

New York Times: In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, With Red Flags 

A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.     

DefenseNews: Elon Musk Tells US Air Force the Era of Fighter Jets Is Ending 

“Locally autonomous drone warfare is where it’s at, where the future will be."

Defense One: America Must Shape the World’s AI Norms — or Dictators Will   

Four former U.S. defense secretaries issue a warning about China and a wake-up call to Americans on artificial intelligence.      

IEEE Spectrum: When Your Artificial Intelligence Learns to Lie 

We need to understand the kinds of deception an AI agent may learn on its own before we can start proposing technological defenses.    

MIT Technology Review: Once Hailed as Unhackable, Blockchains Are Now Getting Hacked 

More and more security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms, and some are fundamental to the way they were built.