Mixed Signals and Emerging Technology with Amy Zegart

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Does America have a plan for winning the competition of the future—mastering artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and space, plus other material and developmental sciences? Amy Zegart, the Hoover Institution’s Morris Arnold and Nona Cox Senior Fellow and cochair of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review (SETR), explains how this one-of-a-kind partnership between the Hoover Institution and Stanford University’s School of Engineering gives policymakers the tools they need to better address the challenges facing cutting-edge industries. Also discussed: the Trump national security team’s inelegant use of a chat app while prepping for a military strike in Yemen, plus the significance (or lack thereof) of Trump’s nemeses caving in to his demands—and whether other entities (Canada, Panama, Greenland, Venezuela’s trade partners) will follow suit. Recorded on March 26, 2025. Download the SETR report here: Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2025

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0:00.0	And we're going to figure out how this happened.
0:02.0	So you don't know what staffer is responsible for this right now?
0:05.0	Well, look, a staffer wasn't responsible.
0:08.0	And look, I take full responsibility.
0:10.0	I built the group to make, my job is to make sure everything's coordinated.
0:14.0	It's Wednesday, March 26, 2025, and welcome back to Goodfellows,
0:19.0	a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social, economic, political, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social,
0:21.7	economic, political, and geopolitical concerns. I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy
0:26.7	Fellow, and I'll be your moderator of today's show. I want to welcome back to the show.
0:30.7	He missed the last show, but we're having it back in our good graces. That would be the
0:33.8	international man of history himself, the historian Neil Ferguson, Sir Neil Ferguson,
0:37.8	I should say. And also joining us, one of our regular Goodfellows, former presidential national
0:42.2	security advisor, Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster. We are not with John Cochran today. John is in
0:48.3	Japan, Kenishiwa, John, wherever you happen to be right now. But standing in for John, taking his place,
0:55.5	welcoming her back to the show.
1:00.5	She hasn't been with this for a while, is Amy Zegart. Dr. Zeguard is the Hoover Institution's Morris Arnold and Noted Jean Cox Senior Fellow, as well as a professor of political science by courtesy
1:05.2	at Stanford University. Amy is also a co-chair of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review,
1:12.0	which we're going to talk about today.
1:15.7	This is a partnership between the Hoover Institution and Stanford School of Engineering.
1:21.2	Its purpose being to better educate policymakers are now artificial intelligence, robotics, material sciences, and all other kinds of cool cutting edge stuff is going to change the world.
1:25.1	Amy is recently on Capitol Hill with Hoover's director Condoleezza Rice
1:28.0	discussing emerging tech with lawmakers. I'm curious as to how that went, Amy. You'll have to share
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