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Are The Killer Robots Inevitable?

6/5/202622 min

Artificial Intelligence isn't just clogging up your Instagram feed with cartoon cat romance-revenge videos or helping your cousin pass AP European History class. Artificial Intelligence is on the battlefield. The Trump administration has been pushing to supercharge the U.S. military with A.I., and the military is leaning into the powerful new technology, from Venezuela to Iran. But not everyone is so gung-ho about it. So to learn more, we spoke with Mike Horowitz, who worked in the Pentagon on military A.I. systems under President Joe Biden and is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

And in headlines, former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to one count of retaining classified information, President Donald Trump announces an effort to boost the struggling U.S. coal industry, and an exorcist is removed after linking UFOs to demons.

Show Notes:

Clips

Risks of Over-Regulating AI
Autonomous Weapons Since the ’80s
Do We Have a Terminator?
Can We Trust Any Administration?

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Greg Walters· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Happy Friday, June 5th. I'm Greg Walters, in for Jane Coaston, and this is What A Day, the show that's gotta hand it to Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate Victor Marks for batting away questions about his extraordinary military exploits by pointing to his dog onstage and saying, basically, "If you don't believe me, ask my dog."

  2. Victor Marks· Soundbite0:26

    This little dog, she's, she's gonna go bite you right now, Carl. [laughs] She was in Syria and Iraq, so is she lying too?

  3. Pete Hegseth· Soundbite0:36

    Well, the dog's not running for governor. You're running for governor [laughs] I don't know, man.

  4. Greg Walters· Host0:40

    I think the dog's got my vote. [upbeat music] On today's show, former Attorney General Pam Bondi throws acting Attorney General Todd Blanche under the bus. And are UFOs really demons? One exorcist seems to think so. But let's start with killer robots or, to be more precise, the Trump administration's push to supercharge the American military with artificial intelligence. AI isn't just clogging up your Instagram feed with cartoon cat romance revenge videos and helping your cousin pass AP European History class. It's also on the battlefield. The US military is leaning into this powerful new technology from Venezuela to Iran. Back in December, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth put it this way.

  5. Pete Hegseth· Soundbite1:26

    The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled

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