Special Edition: AI in War – Who Sets the Rules?
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Artificial intelligence is now changing how wars are fought, and a recent dispute between the Pentagon and AI company Anthropic has raised new questions about who sets the rules.
Paul Scharre — former defense official and one of TIME's most influential people in AI — explains how AI is transforming warfare, why human control matters, and how this technology could shift global power in the years ahead.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, March 7th. Artificial intelligence is no longer just changing how we work and search online. |
| 0:06.4 | It's changing how wars are fought. From Ukraine to Gaza to U.S. strikes against Iran, we are now in an era of AI-enabled warfare. |
| 0:15.5 | So what does that actually mean? And who gets to decide what's allowed when it comes to AI and the military? |
| 0:21.7 | It's a question that was highlighted just this week in a dispute between the Pentagon and the AI company Anthropic. |
| 0:27.3 | So our guest today is Paul Shari. |
| 0:29.4 | He's the executive vice president at the Bipartisan Think Tank, the Center for a New American Security. |
| 0:34.7 | He served multiple tours to Iraq and Afghanistan and is a former defense official who played a leading role in establishing policies on autonomous security. He served multiple tours to Iraq and Afghanistan and is a former defense official |
| 0:38.7 | who played a leading role in establishing policies on autonomous systems. He was named one of Time |
| 0:43.5 | Magazine's most influential people in AI and has written two books on the topic. First, Army of None, |
| 0:49.6 | autonomous weapons and the future of war. And his latest, four battlegrounds, power in the age of artificial |
| 0:55.0 | intelligence. So today, he's helping explain how AI is already shaping military operations, |
| 1:00.7 | why the debate over human control is so urgent and important, and how this technology could |
| 1:05.3 | shift the global balance of power in the years ahead. |
| 1:10.1 | Welcome to the Newsworthy special edition Saturday Saturday when we sit down with a different expert |
| 1:14.3 | or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. |
| 1:17.4 | Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes where we provide |
| 1:21.5 | all the day's news in less than 15 minutes. |
| 1:24.1 | I'm Erica Mandy. It's now time for today's special edition Saturday. |
| 1:29.9 | Paul Shari, thank you so much for joining us here on The Newsworthy. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:34.0 | So in the news lately, we've seen the AI company Anthropic be unwilling to compromise on two issues. |
| 1:40.2 | One, using AI for mass surveillance of Americans and two, using weapons that don't need human involvement, aka autonomous weapons. |
| 1:47.9 | Do you expect the military to use AI in one or both of those ways, despite what they might be saying now? |
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