The Chinese Communist Party expands its influence over businesses The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is blurring the lines between privately and state-owned enterprises. Researchers from FOI and the Swedish National China Centre have analysed this development in their report, The Chinese Communist Party’s influence over businesses .
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How Putin Wants to Strengthen Russian Patriotism Vladimir Putin wants to see a traditional and more patriotic Russia. One way to achieve this is through special programs. FOI researcher Pär Gustafsson Kurki has studied two of them.
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Collective intelligence offers a glimpse of the future Better predicting future pandemics, economic trends, and election results is just a few of the applications of the crowd forecasting method. Now, it is set to support Ukraine in a project led by FOI in cooperation with the Ukrainian government.
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Glimt - our new weapon in the fight for Ukraine's freedom The Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) is looking for understimulated seniors, procrastinating students and night-feeding mothers to help Ukraine’s war effort. They can all participate on Glimt – a digital platform that uses crowd forecasting in order to help Ukraine in its fight for freedom.
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NATO's evolving strategy: progress, challenges, and the future of deterrence Despite relative political unity and ambitious goals, resource constraints and political uncertainty remain persistent challenges within NATO. In a recent report FOI’s researchers analyse how well NATO’s adaptation efforts, strategic ends, operations plans, and force development align to achieve the core task of deterrence and defence.
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AI support in target classification skewed operator judgement AI can assist in recognising targets in imagery from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), but the target classification process is often unclear. Researchers at FOI tested providing operators with a tool that reveals the basis for AI assessments. However, this support had unexpected effects on the operators’ own judgement.
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Ethical challenges of multimodal AI in military use Multimodal neural networks are advanced AI models that can simultaneously understand and integrate various types of information, such as text, images, and sound, thereby creating a more accurate representation of reality. This makes the technology highly attractive for military applications, but also raises many ethical concerns.
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Growing threats to cultural heritage in conflict and peacetime Intentional attacks, collateral damage, theft, and sabotage – cultural heritage faces a wide array of threats, both in armed conflicts and during peacetime. To protect these invaluable assets, there is a need for a more integrated approach—one that addresses both traditional military threats and the increasing risks posed by hybrid warfare tactics.
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The High North — A new playing field emerges Since Sweden and Finland joined NATO, the alliance’s geography has undergone a significant transformation. This new geographical reality creates a fresh playing field for NATO, necessitating the adaptation of integrated deterrence to align with the alliance’ evolving circumstances.
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Political will, not technology, decisive in Ending Russian Energy Imports After Russia’s expanded invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission decided to gradually reduce its dependence on Russian, gas, coal, and oil. The goal was to become independent of Russian energy by 2027. How has it gone? Analysts at FOI present the answer in a report.
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