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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Silicon Valley Goes to War

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Comedy Central

Comedy, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.510.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

As reports emerge of AI-powered weapons systems deployed in strikes on Iran, we’re joined by Dr. Sarah Shoker, Senior Research Scholar at UC Berkeley, and Paul Scharre, Executive Vice President of the Center for a New American Security. Together, they examine how autonomous weapons and artificial intelligence are being integrated into military operations, investigate the relationships between Silicon Valley AI companies and the Pentagon, and explore if regulation is possible amid an accelerating arms race.  This episode is brought to you by: MINT MOBILE - Plans start at $15/month at https://mintmobile.com/tws BILT - Join the loyalty program for renters at https://joinbilt.com/tws SHOPIFY - Link in Description: Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/TWS  Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more:  > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast  > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod   > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Lead Producer – Lauren Walker Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic  Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So I'm kind of a, I'm kind of a chef type, chef type dude.

0:08.6

Kind of a, you know, a lot of times people watch me at home and they'll be like, are you

0:12.0

on the bear?

0:13.0

And I'll be like, well, I could see how you made that mistake.

0:15.4

I like to, I like to throw down for a little bit of the mantra.

0:18.3

But, you know, for me, the one problem I have is, you know, the olive oil, how much to use,

0:24.1

is it the proper olive oil?

0:25.8

I used to have an olive oil fountain in the house, like a chocolate fountain.

0:30.6

But it was sloppy, a lot of slippage.

0:34.2

But Graza, extra virgin olive oil, always fresh. press bottle all their olives in the same season you know me

0:43.7

i used to bottle them it must have been 10 20 years same olives you pick between their two blends you got

0:49.7

sizzle you got drizzle you got drizzle available in glass bottles or cool squeeze bottles for everyday cooking cooking, that'd be your sizz. You're roasting, your sauteing.

0:57.9

You drizzle? That's you dip of bread. You drizzle over ice cream. That's right. People do that.

1:03.0

They also put salt on it. Look, I'm very sophisticated.

1:07.3

The bottles and refill cans are 100% opaque to block UV rays that degrade the oil and it keeps it fresh.

1:13.3

So head to graza.com and use TWS to get 10% off and get to cook in your next chef quality meal. Hello, everybody. My name is John Stewart. Welcome to the weekly show podcast. We got a

1:36.0

banger for you today. As you know, the world is hurtling in no small measure towards its

1:41.7

utter and complete destruction. And there's a new wrinkle in the destruction

1:46.2

of our world. And that is that a lot of the weaponry that we seem to be deploying at the various

1:51.5

places around the world are being controlled by not necessarily autonomous, but large language model,

1:59.7

AI, anthropic, open AI, the same people that

2:04.3

bring you clawed and chat GPT and help you break up with your boyfriend or girlfriend

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