INTERVIEW Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

While the book "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" focuses on AI in the context of power and competition between US & China, Mr Scharre writes "This book is about the darker side of AI". It's not the usual concerns about AI becoming sentient and malicious, but AI used maliciously by humans.

Paul Scharre, former Army Ranger who served in Iraq & Afghanistan, and author of award winning study of autonomous weapons — "Army of None", VP & Director of Studies at Center for a New American Security.

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0:00.0	Joining us now is Paul Shire.
0:10.0	He has a previous book, The Army of Nun, about artificial intelligence.
0:16.5	He is a former Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
0:20.3	His book, Autonomous Weapons and the Army of None, was an award-winning study.
0:25.5	He is vice president, director of studies at the Center for New American Security.
0:30.6	And this book, which is a real page turner for something that is heavy into technology but also politics, geopolitics,
0:40.7	it covers a wide range of areas.
0:42.7	And I got to say, I really did enjoy it.
0:44.4	It's a massive book, but I did enjoy reading it.
0:47.2	The book is Four Battlegrounds, Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
0:51.9	Thank you for joining us, Mr. Shari.
0:54.4	Thank you so much for having me.
0:55.7	Really appreciate it.
0:56.6	Well, thank you.
0:57.1	I want to focus at the very beginning of the book, and this is one of the things that
0:59.8	hooked me.
1:00.4	This book is about the darker side of AI, and that's what I want to focus on.
1:04.8	Too often we get this Polyanna vision version of the future, you know, and everything is going to be just shiny new toys and technology,
1:12.1	but the reality is a little bit concerning, isn't it?
1:15.6	I thought it was interesting that you began the book with talk about an AI dogfight.
1:21.0	That is a, and again, there's a lot of great anecdotes through this, which makes it such a good book to read.
1:26.7	Tell people what was happening in
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