How AI is Changing Warfare ? Live at Web Summit Lisbon 2024
Listen to the original audio · Transcribed with NVIDIA Parakeet · Why times can differ in your player
Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great binds meet. I'm producer Mir Sarenti. On today's episode, we'll be exploring how AI is changing the face of war. Autonomous weapons, facial recognition technologies, and industrial-scale disinformation systems are already being deployed in the Middle East and Ukraine. As countries race to harness AI's military potential, we are faced with profound moral dilemmas and tough regulatory questions about the place of AI in modern conflict.
To discuss this issue, Intelligence Squared hosted a live panel at Web Summit in Lisbon. Researcher and senior policy advisor Adam McAuley was joined by Agni Calimard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, and Kenneth Kukier, Deputy Executive Editor at The Economist. to explore how AI is changing the face of warfare in the 21st century. Let's join our host, Adam McCauley, with more. Hi everybody, welcome.
This is the Intelligence Squared podcast, how AI is changing warfare, and we are live from the Web Summit here in Lisbon, and I am your host, Adam McCauley. So this week at the summit, we've explored the near-endless frontier of technological development, from robots folding laundry to advanced applications that leverage artificial intelligence to improve personal and professional life. Conversations and presentations this week have also taken us to the intersection of technology and politics. Recognition that the way technologies are used has profound societal and social implications, which brings us to our discussion today, AI and its influence in warfare. We live in interesting and uncertain times, and in our so-called moment of increasing geopolitical and great power competition has emerged, or this this uh era has emerged in parallel with a rise in rhetoric around transformational artificial intelligence.
We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (48 minutes, 7,429 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.
No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.