Jon Lindsay on NPR's Short Wave Podcast

This year, the Department of Defense announced that they'd entered agreements with eight artificial intelligence companies. It follows decades of popular media exploring the idea of artificial intelligence in war – from the computer threatening global thermonuclear conflict in the movie WarGames to the Skynet neural net in Terminator. In 2026, when Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT are just a click away, the concept of AI-supported war is suddenly much closer to reality. So what does it really mean for militaries to use AI? And what are the potential implications if they succeed? Short Wave producer Hannah Chinn reports.

"Decision support systems are where the real action is," said Associate Professor Jon Lindsay. "That is all the boring back office stuff that includes intelligence analysis, administration, personal, and anything that goes into the planning of military operations."

Listen to the full conversation now on the Short Wave Podcast.