Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work on New Technologies and Military Readiness

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🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, guest host Adm. James "Sandy" Winnefeld (ret.) speaks with Robert Work, the 32nd United States Deputy Secretary of Defense for both the Obama and Trump administration. Work and Winnefeld discuss the Pentagon's "Third Offset" Strategy, and delve into the military applications and ethical dimensions of technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum science. They also review the Defense Department's transition from focusing on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency to great power competition. Work, now the Distinguished Senior Fellow for Defense and National Security at the Center for a New American Security, explains how Russia and China are developing a range of technologies in an effort to leapfrog the U.S. in the military realm.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Intelligence Matters ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.0	This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel.
0:14.1	Brought to you by Lockheed Martin.
0:16.2	Your mission is ours.
0:18.3	The competition in AI is a central one in great power competition between China and Russia.
0:25.7	AI will reflect the values of the competitors.
0:29.4	Whereas we want to protect a human privacy, we want to make sure that our use of AI is
0:38.1	ethical and moral and consistent with our laws.
0:41.4	An authoritarian regime might not do it that way.
0:44.6	You can see the way that China is using AI-enabled systems to provide surveillance over their
0:50.5	population and actually control them.
0:57.1	Over time, both China and Russia said, look, we cannot allow the United States to be
1:04.1	unfettered in the world.
1:05.7	We want to compete directly with them.
1:08.0	And so starting in the late 90s, both of the countries said, we want to compete directly
1:12.9	with the United States.
1:14.7	And we want to challenge them on the global stage.
1:16.9	We don't like what the United States is doing and we want to make the world safe for authoritarianism.
1:23.4	If the US fought the Cold War to make the world safe for democracy, both China and Russia
1:28.2	are trying to undermine democratic ideals and raise up authoritarian regime.
1:36.7	Around 2012 was the first time the department said, we need to start paying attention to
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