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Hamza Chaudry

AI and National Security Lead at Future of Life Institute; expert on AI risks in weapons systems and national security

Jun 23, 2026

23:24
The AI in the drone figures out an easier way to do the mission.
23:28
The system, you know, sort of intuits that, well, if there's a 10% chance of taking out an enemy combatant and you kill 1,000 people, you're still getting a lot of bang for your buck.
23:38
So then the system, you know, effectively perpetrates war crimes.

13 MINS LATER

36:33
Instead of crashing stock markets, a cartel of bots could take up meteorology.
36:38
Just on the weather forecasting side, the amount of uplift that AI can give to those models is nuts, and it's amazing, and people should do more about that.
36:46
So everyone who works in this space is a big AI fan, and I feel like that's not said enough.
30:09
New ingredient number one, outside testing.
30:13
We get the companies to agree to regimented system of oversight that's mandatory, which is currently not true.
30:22
So if you want the companies to give over their models to the government so they can test them for various use cases for an extended duration of time to make sure that before they put them out in the wild, there's been some safety testing.
31:22
My final question for you on this is just your level of hope and also your level of anger.
31:29
Yep.
31:30
Um, I, I, I have to say, like, I am angry that the companies have been able to get away with both acting as responsible arbiters of AI development and also completely evading any regulation [laughs] or oversight.

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