Ep. 83 – How Sci-Fi Can Help Us Think about AI and the Future of War

The Modern War Institute Podcast by The Modern War Institute at West Point

Aug 22, 201924:19News & Politics

In this episode, MWI's John Amble talks to Martha Wells, author of the four-volume science fiction series The Murderbot Diaries . She discusses how the books' central figure—a hybrid being with living tissue but equipped...

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