Paul Nakasone

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Well, they've just started, within the past couple weeks, started a new facility, which is going to be led by General Paul Nakasone, who led, I think it was Cyber Command, and they have this philosophy of Defense Forward, where they're not waiting for the adversary to come and get us.

We're taking more active measures.

And that's a big concern for you.

This is that woman, that woman who said she's this FBI agent who said she was running a shadow government.

She's getting ready to meet Paul Nakasone from the NSA.

This is the woman who was just arrested.

Lying to Congress by senior FBI official strikes at the heart of our system, no one is above the law.

We talked about this last week, I think, after I went to ThreatCon.

General Nakasone said, like, listen, we know China's been in our electrical grid for years.

We know this like they're you know, and they know that we know and we know they know all that.

So like they the lights could go out at some point.

We're stopping two to three North Koreans a week from getting hired at Fortune 500 companies in the United States.

It is a national security issue, which is why I was down at Vanderbilt with General Nakasone, the former director of the NSA.

So it's really neat now in the era of AI where you have nation state threat actors that are trying to claim to be you, trying to work at health care companies, financial services companies, trying to take your tax refund.

We get to defend against that while helping Americans not have to deal with all the pain of managing passwords and logins and filling out forms on the Internet.

They really were.

The opening keynote, which I think we mentioned last week, was General Paul Nakasone, who's the recently retired NSA director, Cyber Command commander.

Really frank, like nice, and just the kind of keynote that you're like, I feel like we should get more of a lot of times.

I feel like the keynotes are just these like super high level, especially if you have somebody like him who's a, you know, a former government official or, you know, maybe a CEO or something like that.

And I think one of those people coming to the conference this year, uh, General Tim Hawk, uh, you know, former, uh, director of, uh, National Security Agency, former commander of the US Cyber Command.

Also, Paul Nakasone, the general who held that job before him.

Um, and, and, and I think I'm really interested, you know, on their perspectives on China in particular.

Um, I know that, uh, General Hawk came down, uh, a little bit later, uh, to the Cipher Brief Threat Conference to speak.

As a matter of fact, I think it was the same year that, uh, CIA Director then Bill Burns, uh, came down to speak at the conference, um- After a, a horrible mishap the year before, which we can talk about in just a second.

But in terms of the China threat, I think that, you know, I was just talking with General Paul Nakasone this morning, um, about critical infrastructure, and now he, he is really focusing a lot on how AI, uh, is allowing adversaries, um, to, uh, manipulate critical infrastructure even more.

But really his focus is on how are we gonna use AI to defend our critical infrastructure and to protect it, um, w- which is phenomenal, and I'm glad that's where he's putting his attention and his focus.

Um, we have a, not to go down a rabbit hole, but a, a great partnership that The Cipher Brief is getting ready to announce, uh, in Sea Island with, uh, General Nakasone and the program that he's running at Vanderbilt University, um, and, and MasterCard, um, and our, our partner over at MasterCard, Kirsten Choat.

There has always been...

And, and you remember, um, Obama went to Russia and told Putin, "If you hack, if you actually change votes, like you do some disinformation or whatever, you actually change votes for however many days I've got left in office, I'm telling Aaron and Nakasone, 'Have fun.'" Right? That's basically what he told Putin.

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Um, of like you empty, you, you know-

The fact that it's roughly the same size as it was when it was a teeny tiny cyber command and a big NSA means that some pieces of those missions on either side are probably not being conducted as well as they might.

The upside of keeping it together is you do have a leader who can decide how to move resources quickly without fighting the bureaucracy of not my organization, as Paul Nakasone did when he had joint command.

But I do think there is good purpose in splitting them.

I know one of the things that I have argued about where the D&I is actually a good advance for the intelligence community, not just overhead.

Alex is not buying the timeline or Sonnet 5.5.

Source, the Moonshots podcast with guest questions from Ben Goertzel, Larry Summers, and Paul Nakasone.

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Richard Socher says, a real superintelligence has to choose what it works on.

Um, so, um, we're excited to be part of it right at the beginning.

And their opening keynote is something that I'm super excited about It is Paul Nakasone, who's the retired, uh, director of NSA and Cyber Command, retired a few years ago.

Um, and these, these people just do not speak in public, and it just does not happen, you know? And if they do, it's always-- e-especially when they're still active.

I remember, oh God, I think it was General Alexander spoke at Black Hat, like right when the Edward Snowden stuff happened.