NVIDIA and the Future of AI
Doug O'Laughlin of the Fabricated Knowledge substack and I discuss: NVIDIA's corporate history and how it arrived at such a dominant position today What makes it so irreplacable in the coming AI rev...
3 Kesä 202349min
Flournoy on US-China and DoD Innovation
Michele Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy under Obama, CNAS founder, and co-founder of WestExec Advisors, returns to ChinaTalk to discuss: How the Biden Administration is trying to re-e...
31 Touko 20231h 1min
DoD Tech Strategy: How the Pentagon Hopes to Innovate
The Pentagon has a new tech strategy! What does it say, what impact will it have, and what do its authors think about technological change and warfare? Dr. Nina Kollars, advisor to Under Secretary of ...
23 Touko 20231h 17min
AI Implementation: The View From the Trenches
Dan Faggella, who for ten years has interviewed business leaders about the challenges of implementing AI, joins ChinaTalk to discuss about just how hard it is to get AI to diffuse across an economy. W...
18 Touko 202343min
Jeff Ding on US vs China AI and Lessons from Past Industrial Revolutions
Jeff Ding is the leading US scholar on China and AI and author of one of the earliest China-focused Substacks, ChinAI. He recently published a fire paper called, “The diffusion deficit in scientific a...
11 Touko 20231h 13min
Crafting A National Tech Strategy and Reviving Net Tech Assessment
PJ Maykish, Abigail Kukura, and Will Moreland from the Future Technologies platform team of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) join the conversation to discuss critical technologies and th...
6 Touko 20231h
Sen. Warner on the RESTRICT Act, AI, Bipartisanship on China and a New Era of Intelligence
On Monday, May 1, I interviewed Virgina Senator Mark Warner. We get into the RESTRICT Act, state capacity to analyze emerging technologies, the future of industrial policy, the nature and limits to bi...
2 Touko 202343min
Hoover, Communism, and the FBI
J. Edgar Hoover was a controversial figure who served as the director of the FBI for nearly five decades. In this episode, we explore his life and legacy with Beverly Gage, a professor of 20th-century...
25 Huhti 20231h 35min
