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Eric Schmidt explains that warfare is changing forever. Battles are moving online and into the air, handled by robotic systems rather than soldiers. Traditional images of war—people with guns on battlefields—are being replaced by remote, automated operations. Modern defense should focus on building autonomous, expendable robotic systems. This shift... show more

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Wes Roth1 year ago

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Jordan Thibodeau1 year ago

We talked about this during our crossover, you should clip our video as a reply to this. He's got a lot of motivated reasoning going on, he needs this to happen because he just so happens to benefit in the defense tech startups that sell the solution. Drones are the future, but boots on ground is how you hold a position (yes yes in X years all robots).

Wes Roth1 year ago

Yeah, agreed. We need to dive deeper into this stuff in our next chat. I'm about to watch your latest vid, where you two dissect the Dario / Anderson Cooper interview. I read the Axios article, but have yet to see the actual interview

Dalibor Šrámek1 year ago

You can watch it in real time in Ukraine.

dazzafact1 year ago

Is the Ukraine/Russia conflict just a provoked war to test artificial intelligence?

Jeffrey Dean Hochderffer1 year ago

We should adopt a modern defense ASAP, then cut the defense budget in half

Sławek1 year ago

Source?

Bluetiger Dreaming1 year ago

Nice post Wes. Thank you

.1 year ago

Warfare is becoming so abstract that pretty soon we're going to be forced into resolving conflicts through talking to each other. Who would have thought that the most advanced weapons system is in fact language?

Vlad Ciobanu1 year ago

that's like a warlord from the 11th century saying that war in 2000 will be fought with automated bows and self swinging swords.. we are seriously underestimating new technologies

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