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Hi, and welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Hannah and today we're talking about AI and automation

in the context of national security given the nature of today's conflict situations.

How do these technologies change how we protect lives in those conflict situations and also

how is AI shifting power dynamics around the globe?

Joining me is Gregory Allen, fellow at the Center for New American Security

and co-author of the Belfour Center Report on AI and National Security.

Gail Lamon, chief marketing officer of Shield AI,

and the author of The Dressmaker of Care, Kana and Ashley's War,

both of which dealt with post-9-11 conflicts, and

Ryan Sang, the CEO and co-founder of Shield AI.

We're all aware that the nature of warfare and national security today is no longer

hundreds of thousands of men on a field facing each other, nor is it simply nuclear races.

So what are today's conflict situations, actually?

What do they really look like? The United States has been at war continuously now, basically

since 2001, in a non-stop situation. And those wars, for the majority of their time frame,

have been in counterinsurgency operations, which does involve boots on the ground

and is very people intensive. And we've been doing that for a long time. We're talking about

wars that are increasingly fought in urban environments, settings where it is increasingly difficult

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