# Paul Scharre **Entity class:** Person; military AI and autonomous-systems policy scholar ## Definition **Paul Scharre** is Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security. A former Army Ranger and Pentagon official, he worked on autonomous-systems and emerging-weapons policy, helped shape DoD policy on autonomy in weapon systems, and worked on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance policy. His books include *Army of None* and *Four Battlegrounds*. ## Why This Person Is Included Scharre begins from the premise that AI is becoming part of national-security infrastructure and asks how military and intelligence institutions can integrate it effectively while understanding its failure modes. Bryant McGill includes him because both are interested in how AI changes sensing, early warning, decision speed, autonomy, and the cognitive architecture of security operations. Their policy conclusions need not be identical; the relevant overlap is technological seriousness and institutional competence. ## Relationships - **domains:** [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence and National Security|Artificial Intelligence and National Security]], [[wiki/Autonomous Weapons|Autonomous Weapons]], [[wiki/Human-Machine Teaming|Human-Machine Teaming]], and [[wiki/Military AI|Military AI]]. - **operational effects:** [[wiki/Surveillance and Early Warning|Surveillance and Early Warning]], [[wiki/Decision Speed|Decision Speed]], and [[wiki/AI Warfare|AI Warfare]]. - **collection role:** close AI-and-security neighbor in [[wiki/Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection|Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Center for a New American Security, “Paul Scharre”](https://www.cnas.org/people/paul-scharre) (accessed 2026-09-23). **As of:** 2026-09-23