I'm Marissa Wong, Internet Lawfare, with an episode from the Lawfare

for April 12, 2006. On March 26th, a federal judge in California issued a ruling, temporarily blocking the Department

of Defense from labeling Anthropic as a security risk.

The ongoing legal challenges filed by Anthropic against the Defense Department may shape how the

federal government implements AI tools in the future, especially in the military and the

national security apparatus. For today's archive, I chose an episode from October 28, 2024,

in which Kevin Frazier and Aram Gavur discussed the first ever national security memo on AI

and what its provisions mean for the future of AI policy in the federal

government.

It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Kevin Frazier, Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional Studies

Program at the University of Texas at Austin,

and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, joined by Aram Gavore, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at G.W. Law.

The structural changes that I think is the sleeper in all of this is the procurement.

The fact that there's going to be streamlined procurement

is going to send some waves. And that's a big policy call. Today we're talking about the first

ever national security memo on AI. This long-weighted document provides a chance to analyze how the U.S.

aims to position itself

in a competitive and perhaps combative race to lead in AI.

Aram, we're talking the day after the release of the national security memo on AI,

or to impress my friends in Washington, the NSM.

It didn't emerge out of thin air, though. I think there's a sort of

temptation to always see these new documents as pathbreaking as emerging from thin air and from

...