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On Friday, March 6th, Lawfare and Georgetown Law are bringing together leading scholars,

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on what's broken with the statute and how to fix it. The event is free and open to the public, in person and online.

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It is completely insane to simultaneously say this product is so important we're going to force you to give it to us.

It's so safe that we're going to use it during an active military engagement.

And it's so dangerous that we're going to burn you to the ground.

It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare,

with Lawfare Senior Editor and Research Director Alan Rosenstein.

So it's quite possible that, you know, the people that are in good faith,

assuming that when the government says, oh, yeah, according to law and practice and regulation and this DoD guideline, we're not going to autonomous weapons.

Like that protects them.

And DOD is saying, okay, that's great for us because we can change the guidelines.

In a live recording on March 2nd, we talked about the Pentagon's designation of AI company

Anthropic as a supply chain risk, the reaction from

Anthropic and other AI companies and the legal challenges the designation is surely going to face.

I am here with Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Alan Rosenstein, Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School,

and Sudden expert on procurement law.

Alan, how did you spend your weekend?

Reading a lot of procurement law.

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