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Rational Security

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Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, News, Government, Politics, Middleeast

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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This week, a Quinta-less Alan and Scott sat down with Lawfare all-stars Natalie Orpett, Eugenia Lostri, and Kevin Frazier to talk about the week’s big national security news, including:

“Waiting to Expel.” The New York Times reported this week that the anticipated transfer of almost a dozen detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Oman was halted in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre. This as Oman is reportedly preparing to expel a number of former detainees already resident there with their families. What do these developments mean for the effort to resettle detainees and ultimately close Guantanamo?
“The First Law of Robotics is Don’t Talk About the Law of Robotics.” AI safety is back on the front pages again, after the resignation of much of OpenAI’s “superalignment” team, which had been tasked with preventing the AIs being developed from becoming a threat to humanity. A bipartisan group of senators, meanwhile, has laid out a roadmap to guide legislative efforts. But is it on the right track? And just how much should we be sucking up to our future robot overlords?
“20,000 Leaks Under the Sea.” Strategic competition is slowly leading U.S. officials to give more careful consideration to the network of undersea cables on which much of the global telecommunications system relies—and which China and Russia seem increasingly intent on being able to access or disrupt. But what will addressing this threat require? And is the antiquated legal regime governing undersea cables up to the task?

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0:00.0	So the episode title draft is TK TK TK which I'm sure has a great acronym behind it right
0:08.1	Scott? Something like that this is a like reporter's secret I learned upon working here at lawfare is that TK
0:16.5	is I guess what reporters and newspaper people use to fill in empty language
0:21.0	they haven't written yet because you there's no word in English language
0:24.9	that has those back to back I guess it has become very useful I start using it
0:28.8	everywhere now these days most of my articles are just TK T TK when I hand them in, waiting for editor comments,
0:35.0	when I pretend they're done when they're really not.
0:37.0	Yeah, I find it super useful, like, you know, when I'm writing and I get stuck on something,
0:41.0	and I just, you know, I need to note it down but then move on I just write T K T K so it's very helpful.
0:46.0	I also learned about this from lawfare but until now I didn't know why I didn't know that it was because T K T K like there's no English word that has it I could be
0:56.3	I just with the flow peer pressured into T K T K T K. I'm just worried what other secrets I don't know about that are supposedly
1:05.8	journalistic norms that law fair is just developing out of thin air.
1:09.4	So there's a lot of misspelled words in journalism apparently lead LEDE and graph I I guess it's I guess it's so that you don't
1:18.6	if like if people are writing it down then you can do a search for it and then pull it out because it's not
1:23.7	an real word but I don't know. We also have to bear mind these are journalistic
1:26.8	norms inherited through the lens of Benjamin Wittis which is a very
1:30.9	particular lens like you may also believe that newsrooms require dog shirts
1:34.9	be worn on a daily basis,
1:36.2	and that is in fact not the general policy
1:38.8	even at the Washington Post and Legal Times.
1:41.3	Well, the other thing that we have been ported from by the way this is the
1:44.8	the most lawyerly conversation of like there's some journalisty thing convention like
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