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Deep RL Needs Deep Behavior Analysis: Exploring Implicit Planning by Model-Free Agents in Open-Ended Environments
Riley Simmons-Edler, Ryan P. Badman, Felix Baastad Berg +5
Understanding the behavior of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents -particularly as task and agent sophistication increase- requires more than simple comparison of reward curve…
Military AI Needs Technically-Informed Regulation to Safeguard AI Research and its Applications
Riley Simmons-Edler, Jean Dong, Paul Lushenko +2
Military weapon systems and command-and-control infrastructure augmented by artificial intelligence (AI) have seen rapid development and deployment in recent years. However, the so…
AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Risk Geopolitical Instability and Threaten AI Research
Riley Simmons-Edler, Ryan Badman, Shayne Longpre +1
The recent embrace of machine learning (ML) in the development of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) creates serious risks to geopolitical stability and the free exchange of ideas in…
Blessing or Curse of Democracy?: Current Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Ryan P. Badman, Yunxin Wu, Keigo Inukai +1
Background: A major question in Covid-19 research is whether democracies handled the Covid-19 pandemic crisis better or worse than authoritarian countries. However, it is important…
A Multifaceted Panel Data Gravity Model Analysis of Peru's Foreign Trade
Xu Wang, Ryan P. Badman
Peru's abundant natural resources and friendly trade policies has made the country a major economic player in both South America and the global community. Consequently, exports are…
A streamlined approach to particle ALD coating of spherical beads
Ryan P Badman, Xinwei Wu, Vincent J Genova
Conformal Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) of nanoparticles is an now an established nanofabrication concept employed by many researchers for applications such as creating diffusion b…
Charged Particle Tracking with the Timepix ASIC
Kazuyoshi Akiba, Marina Artuso, Ryan Badman +39
A prototype particle tracking telescope has been constructed using Timepix and Medipix ASIC hybrid pixel assemblies as the six sensing planes. Each telescope plane consisted of one…