Ep 112: Paul Scharre on AI 101

School of War

Paul Scharre, Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at CNAS and author of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, joins the show to talk about how AI will change the battlefield.

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Times

• 01:38 Introduction

• 01:54 Becoming a Ranger

• 03:48 A defining moment

• 07:25 A historical parallel for AI

• 11:16 Hardware

• 14:10 “Taiwan is the Saudi Arabia of chips”

• 16:20 Military applications

• 19:37 Battle damage assessment and AI tracking

• 22:50 Autonomous weapons

• 27:50 Legal, ethical, and control issues

• 30:08 Battlefield applications

• 32:43 Operational ability

• 36:51 WMDs

• 40:09 Countermeasures

• 43:53 Transportable?

• 46:40 AI and nuclear weapons

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