Amy McGrath
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How bad is our democracy right now when the president of the United States stands up there and says to the world that the opposition party in America can't win an election unless they cheat or buy fraud.
And all while Republicans stand up and clap for it.
What doesn't make sense, Bobby, I mean, he was in power in 2020.
So somehow tell me how the 2020 election was rigged when Republicans are in power.
But then when Democrats are in power in 2024, when Donald Trump won, somehow that's not right.
I mean, the logic there is bonkers.
Well, Bobby, there's a really important story that also is being underreported, and I want to get your take on it, especially with your background working with the Missile Defense Agency.
You were a very decorated Navy officer, surface warfare officer, but you've done a lot of tours doing lots of different really cool stuff, okay?
And the future...
Not only for all of us and the future of tech and, you know, the future of warfare is AI.
And this week, there's this issue between the Department of Defense, namely the Secretary of Defense or Secretary of War, whatever he wants to call himself, and an AI company called Anthropic.
And so what's this all about?
Pete Hegseth, who is unfortunately our Secretary of Defense, he wants this private AI company โ
to drop its own safety guardrails, okay?
Or he'll say if they don't do what he wants, the Pentagon will then cancel this private company's $200 million contract to work with the Pentagon and force that company
He wants to force the company to tailor its model of artificial intelligence to the military's needs.
So there's a lot going on there, right?
And people need to know that tech companies that develop AI and the people that develop AI โ
do have some serious ethical concerns with that technology.
In this case, that company and its developers do not want their work, their technology, to be used in what they consider potentially unethical ways, like massive government spying on its own citizens, which could happen,