The Pentagon’s growing alliance with Silicon Valley, where AI and tech innovation are redefining warfare and morality.
In this WhoWhatWhy podcast, national security journalist Andrew Cockburn exposes the little- known links between the Pentagon’s military-technology complex at the dark heart of Silicon Valley.
Drawing from his recent cover story for Harper’s, entitled “The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley Problem,” Cockburn delves into the military’s controversial alliance with tech behemoths.
This partnership, in addition to posing ethical quandaries, is fundamentally altering the landscape of modern combat through the advent of artificial intelligence and related innovations.
This collaboration ropes in some of Silicon Valley’s most contentious figures, such as Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey, further complicating the moral implications of this union.
Cockburn untangles the intricate web linking the military to the technology sector, probing the implications of their partnership for global security, the rule of law, and ethical constraints on the use of force, both domestically and internationally.
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