a16z Podcast: The Law (and Tech) of Warfare

The a16z Show

a16z

Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Innovation, Science, Software Eating The World, Business, Technology

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Rules, guidelines, regulations, and “laws” are all sometimes used interchangeably — but what’s legal and what isn’t is far more complex when it comes to policy, especially when politics (and technology) enters the picture. Take encryption for instanc...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal. For this episode, Hannah and I spoke to
0:05.0	Benjamin Wittes, senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and editor-in-chief
0:10.1	of the now popular Lawfare blog, which covers issues of national security. Our conversation
0:15.9	covers the law and technology of warfare, from military drones, cybersecurity, and encryption, to geopolitics
0:22.6	and the future of violence, which is the title of a book he co-authored with Gabriella Bloom.
0:27.2	We also discuss the evolution of media, including expert and academic blogging in the age
0:31.3	of the internet. This episode was recorded as part of our DC on the Road podcast series last
0:35.4	month. For those that are new to these, we also did this last year when we interviewed Ezra Klein of Vox, if you want to check those out as well.
0:41.1	We're live, no, not really live. I can't make that same joke over and over again. Can't stop using
0:45.0	it. We're doing the podcast from D.C. on the ground. And we have as our special guest today, Benjamin Wittes. Welcome, everyone. Thanks for having me.
0:55.3	Now, I've been reading Lawfare for a long time, but I have to confess, however, like, unlike your
0:59.6	audience, which has grown post-Trump, I'm one of those people who reads less about politics now than
1:04.1	before. It's fascinating because there was actually New York Times profile about you earlier this
1:08.7	year that shared your readership as of early February was more
1:13.1	than all of 2016. Yeah, so we have had, I mean, quite literally exponential growth between last
1:21.3	year and this year. And it's a really interesting effect of the Trump first candidacy and then election that he
1:30.7	generated enormous interest in the issues that we cover, what we call hard national security
1:38.7	choices.
1:39.5	The executive order, yeah.
1:40.5	You know, that post is actually interesting because it's, among other things, it has
1:44.6	some high altitude comments on the executive order, but it is also a technical dissection of
1:51.0	why I thought this executive order was going to give rise to a lot of litigation opportunity.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from a16z, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of a16z and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.