BALLOONTALK: EMERGENCY EDITION
Chinese balloons over Wyoming!! To discuss, we have on today William 'Balloon Guy' Kim of the Marathon Initiative, Eric Lofgren of AcquisitionTalk, and Gerard Dipippo of CSIS. Intro Music: Up Up and A...
3 Helmi 202339min
AI Compute 101: The Geopolitics of Giant Models
Love it or hate it, AI capabilities continue to advance. As futurists imagine how this technology may one day be used, how it develops and who will be able to access AI tools will also depend on who f...
3 Helmi 20231h 12min
War in Taiwan: Who Would Win?
China v Taiwan: who would win? Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow and director of research at Brookings. He specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American national securi...
29 Tammi 20231h 8min
China's Data Policy Future
This episode is sponsored by Policyware. Check out Samm's class at https://www.policyware.org/chinatalk How do Chinese cyber laws and regulations affect multinational companies, and US-China relations...
25 Tammi 202318min
War for Taiwan: What Happens If China Wins?
Say China wins a war for Taiwan. What happens next? To discuss the political and economic consequences of a PRC takeover of Taiwan, I have on today Jude Blanchette and Gerard Dipippo, both fellows at ...
23 Tammi 20231h 3min
Rep. Ro Khanna on AI, the China Committee, and Industrial Policy
In 2023, ChinaTalk is going to Congress! First up in our series is Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat who represents Silicon Valley. We get into: What he hopes the China Committee can accomplish Why ChatGPT l...
19 Tammi 202332min
Chips Act: A How To Guide
What can $52bn for semiconductors actually accomplish? To discuss the tensions and tradeoffs underlying the decisions that the US government is about to make on how to spend this money, I have on toda...
17 Tammi 202349min
Knowledge and AI with a Rabbi and Substacker
As AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, we consider the question of whether there are limits to what computers can know and how this compares to human understanding. Joining me on this episode is Sa...
13 Tammi 20231h 5min
