Palmer Luckey

You have to now get very clear about what the difference between a real usable, fieldable AI system looks like versus strapping together chat GPT with whatever your quadcopter thing is and saying that it's going to change the world.

I do think what's been helpful to us, though, with members of Congress, people in the Pentagon, even investors...

has been the explosion of firsthand understanding of how powerful AI can be that's been driven by these large language models.

Obviously, the things that we are building that fuse data from thermal vision and radar and signals intelligence processors that then calculate optimal weapons pairing against that target, very different use of AI than a thing that you tell to write a poem about your car.

But the fact that every member of Congress has been able to use chat GPT, the fact that all these people in the Pentagon have seen

and used systems doing things that they never believed a computer could do has, I think, expanded people's minds in general towards the possibility that maybe people can be replaced by AI in certain use cases.

Maybe there are areas where computers really can do a job as well or better than a person.

A lot of skeptics, I think, have changed their minds because they typed something into ChatGPT, it did something for them, and they said, wow, computers sure are amazing these days.

What has AI most unlocked?

The most important thing that it has unlocked for us is ability to scale.

People focus on use cases where AI can do better than a person or even better than a team of 100 or 1,000 people at some one specific task.

I think a lot of the more interesting use cases are where you can do as good of a person, but without a person having to do it.

Let's use an example.

Let's say that I'm going to deploy

1,000 autonomous cruise missiles.

Those are going to be a lot more impactful than they would be if I had to have 1,000 people trying to remotely pilot 1,000 systems and tell them what to do, how to do it, have all those data links active.

I guess it's using AI to do things that would be impossible to do otherwise.

either for real technical reasons like bandwidth or just for practical reasons.

We don't have thousands of pilots that we could dedicate to such a task.

For me, I think that's the biggest thing AI enables.