Alok Mehta

It has to make decisions that are a lot harder.

And so this is the kind of distinction that the companies that you're talking about are worried about, which is as you give

higher and higher level of abstraction in terms of the orders to drones.

It's required to make more decisions.

And our current AI tools, while very good, are not reliable in making those kinds of decisions in high stakes battlefields at the level of reliability that we really want when you're engaging in military operations.

I think there are almost certainly going to be developments in how we think about the appropriate use of AI in warfare.

Some of that will develop as we figure out what these AI tools are capable of.

Not only that, but as we figure out various issues around implementation of AI in actual systems.

So it's one thing to think about AI in the abstract.

It turns out that when you put AI in physical systems, there are all sorts of issues that you don't anticipate as you try to integrate AI with various physical components.

And I think we're going to be engaging in a learning process in which we understand more about the capabilities of AI systems.

We learn more about the capabilities of computers.

those systems when they're integrated into a bigger module, like an actual drone, and we get some experience about how they work in the real world, then I do hope we have discussions within our government, between government and lawmakers about what is the appropriate end of use of military technology or AI and military technology and where we might want to put some guardrails to make sure that we're

protecting our troops, protecting our reputation as a country, ensuring that people trust AI technology as a whole.

In terms of that, I think what I worry about is that we might start to deploy technology more quickly than our ability to absorb the lessons from using that technology.

So we see time and time again, AI technology ever since Shia GPT came out has been evolving at a really rapid pace.

It's overwhelming a lot of the systems and institutions that we've developed to help deal with the impacts of technology on society.

And I'm worried that we'll see

Something similar happened in the military space where we'll engage in operations using AI, but we won't have the systems in place to be able to learn lessons from those, integrate lessons from different units, using AI in different ways, and then being able to roll that back up into higher level guidance or policy on an appropriate way to use AI and appropriate guardrails.

And so I do hope that we...