Ep 112: Paul Scharre on AI 101

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. ▪️  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 Follow along  on Instagram Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack Buy the book here - Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence