Catching Up With Killer Robots
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
When the United States put a machine gun on top of what looked like a bomb-squad robot, it didn’t care much who it was aiming at. But on the whole, drones and other killer robots are pretty effective, and there’s more to come. This week we speak with Kelsey Atherton, a writer for C4ISRNet and Fifth Domain, who brings us up to speed on these deadly machines.
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| 0:09.0 | Just click the link in the show description to support now. To the sense that there is any like vague notion of fiscal responsibility and defense planning, |
| 0:22.0 | sending a robot to follow a submarine for a couple |
| 0:26.1 | weeks is way cheaper than sending a destroyer with a couple hundred people on board to do the same. |
| 0:33.0 | You're listening to war college, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front |
| 0:46.4 | lines. |
| 0:47.4 | Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and Jason Fields. Hello, welcome to War College. I'm Matthew Galt and I'm Jason Field. The US Air Force |
| 1:08.8 | has retired the MQ1 Predator drone, the iconic hardware that's come to define the back half of America's war |
| 1:14.9 | for wars abroad |
| 1:16.1 | So what's next for the future of autonomous warfare? |
| 1:19.6 | Kelsey Atherton is here to help us sort it out |
| 1:21.9 | Atherton is a to help us sort it out. |
| 1:22.6 | Atherton is a staff writer at C4 ISR net and the editor-in chief of Grand Blogg |
| 1:27.8 | Tarkin. |
| 1:28.8 | His work has appeared in Popular Science, Aviation Week, and Vice. |
| 1:32.0 | Kelsey, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:34.0 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:35.0 | All right, so why is the predator retiring? |
| 1:38.0 | It's not that old, is it? |
| 1:40.0 | It's that old. |
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