JVL (Jonathan V. Last)

Like your belly button?

No, not those ones.

Sea drones.

So putting drones in the water.

And what worries me about that is that sea drones, sea-based drones, will wind up being categorically different from aerial drones because of the way data transfer works through water.

Okay.

Because what it means is where you can transmit data and so you can have human control over aerial drones and land-based drones, either through, you know, broadcast means or through wire, you know, fly-by-wire, which is what a lot of the Ukrainian drones are.

Once you get into sea-based drones, by definition, they're almost going to all have to be autonomous.

Right.

And so, you know, like people are concerned about autonomous drones on the battlefield and in the air.

And I am also concerned about that because I think in a weird way, that's like the perfect use case for AI.

You know, AI has all sorts of like it fucks up a certain percentage of the time.

And one place where humans are historically very comfortable with fuck ups is warfighting.

So humans have often said, I do not care if this technology kills the wrong people and some civilians, so long as it kills a lot of the people I also want to kill.

So I think we're going to have a very high tolerance for that sort of thing with aerial drones and land-based drones.

We're going to get there with drones, sea-based drones, and they're all going to have to be autonomous drones.

Not a 20% scenario.

This isn't like a thing that tomorrow worries me.

But when I project forward what the future of warfighting looks like.

Not about sea life.