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Welcome to Silic Consciousness, the DSR Network Podcast focusing on the Artificial Intelligence revolution, politics and policy.

Hello and welcome to one of the very first episodes of Siliconsious, our

podcast focusing on the intersection of AI policy and politics. We thought it would be completely appropriate to kick things off with a discussion

with a friend Paul Shari, who is the Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at C. NAS, he's the award-winning author of Four

Battlegrounds, Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, one of the very very best thinkers on these subjects that we know anywhere,

welcome Paul.

Well, thank you.

Thanks for having me.

You've been busy over there and since the last time we spoke.

And so I thought the place I would begin as looking at a couple of your recent projects. I saw an article by you in Foreign Affairs earlier this year and I want to touch on that then move on to bigger subject

this was the perilous coming of age of AI warfare how to limit the threat of autonomous weapons.

We've talked about this on one of our other podcasts, but I wanted to pick up on it so that we could also discuss it here because the issue of killing

machines, machines that decide who to kill, is alarming to a lot of people, particularly if the speed of advances

outpaced the speed of people to keep up with them. The article came out in February. Since then, what's

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