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Robocop Was Right!!! The Rise Of AI Weapons

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	Hey, everybody, Jason Burmes here.
	And today, we're going to discuss not only the rise of AI weapon systems, but the face that they're putting on it.
	And then, in retrospect, I really want to look back at the 1980s film, RoboCop.
	I've mentioned it before, but I recently watched it again in this past year, and it was just so spot on and so relevant, especially when they were parroting not only capitalism,
	corporatism, militarism of the police, but this expansion in the Reagan era of the Star Wars program or SDI, Strategic Defense Initiative, that we talk a lot about on this show, and rightfully so.
	Why?
	Because we now have a rebrand or a relaunch or a reprogramming or an update or all of the above of the technology via that initial Star Wars program with this Golden Dome talk.
	And the parodies are so spot on that, yes, we are probably going to get a copyright notice for playing all the commercials, but I couldn't help myself.
	There was already a YouTube channel that had all the commercials in succession.
	It's only about five and a half minutes of the film.
	The film actually opens with one of these commercials.
	But every single aspect of it is so big that we're going to do them.
	And we're going to do them live.
	Isn't that right, Bill?
	Where are you, Bill?
	We'll do it live.
	Okay.
	We'll do it live.
	Fuck it.
	Do it live.
	I'll write it and we'll do it live.
	Thank you, Bill.
	We will do that.
	Now, we're also going to look at an individual who is currently making AI weapons systems for the U.S. military, but really beyond.
	He's talking about making the United States the marketplace for all weapons systems.
	Now, obviously, if you do that, first of all, that's an impossibility because you're always going to have competing militaries.
	Now, you may have deals back and forth, depending on who is allied with one another, who is currently against one another, et cetera, et cetera.
	But there's a lot of backdoor stuff.
	The best stuff is kept under classification.
	But I look at this guy and this 60 Minutes piece, his name's Palmer, and I forget whether it's Lucky or Luke.
	He's the guy that created the Oculus.
	Now, I want to remind people again, the U.S. military had varying forms of stereoscopic virtual reality for decades.
	You can look at it.
	It's very easy to find these old school stereoscopic machines.
	So did he invent VR?
	No.
	I don't even think that's the claim, but even with the Oculus, you have to remember a lot of that tech was military grade and then came into the commercial field through the advancement of other technologies, making them cheaper and in abundance.
	So we're also going to take your questions, your comments on artificial intelligence, on the weapon systems, on RoboCop and the commercials that we're going to play, and of course, on this 60 minutes piece that we are going to dissect.
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	All right.
	Now, before we get into the Robocop stuff, I want to give you kind of like the preview of this guy.
	He's in sandals And he's got a wacky shirt.
	He's not threatening at all.
	And look, this guy has been sold by the mainstream media for some time.
	I don't necessarily think he's a bad person.
	This is the mentality of warfare.
	Well, if the other guy's going to do it, I've got to do it better.
	And I certainly do believe in defense systems.
	The problem is now you're getting into fully automated death machines.
	We've had them for a while.
	All right, but they've been on a much smaller scale.
	And the thing that people don't realize and they don't contemplate, they always think it's going on somewhere else, especially if you live in a first world nation.
	You got a nice house, you got a nice car, you've lived a decent life.
	More and more people woke up to the global authoritarian nature of things like the United Nations, who ironically speaks out against AI weapons, wink wink.
	I'm sure they wouldn't if they were the global military, but that's a nuance we'll save for later.
	And you have a little bit more pushback, but there are still those people out there that believe every damn thing that CNN tells them, that Fox News tells them, ABC, NBC, CBS.
	And the funny thing is, we from time to time get a glimpse or an admission that there is much more, like Trump, talking about the military weapons that we have that no one knows about and are far superior to anything else.
	I don't think he's bluffing on that one.
	Now, is it far superior than anything else?
	I think that Russia and China, more than likely, they're in the running.
	We would be remiss or ignorant or naive to say they're not in the running.
	And again, that really shows you why they're up in space with us at the ISS.
	Okay.
	I've ranted.
	I've rambled.
	What we're going to do now is we are going to bring up these RoboCop commercials and little news bits.
	And one of the anchors, the female anchor, I believe she was the female anchor on entertainment tonight when I was growing up.
	So here we go.
	Some RoboCop action for everybody.
	Dramatic Music
	Little Orion.
	We're talking about space.
	All right, here.
	And like I said, this is how the movie intros.
	�� This is Media Break.
	You give us three minutes, and we'll give you the world.
	Good morning.
	I'm Casey Wong with Jess Perkins.
	Top Story Pretoria.
	The threat of nuclear confrontation in South Africa escalated today when the ruling white military government of that besieged city-state unveiled a French-made neutron bomb and affirmed its willingness to use the three-megaton device as the city's last line of defense.
	Now, before, and Star Wars is the next thing that they get into, I realize there's a ton of conflict.
	Remember, RoboCop is pretty much, you know, contemporary.
	It looks like it's shot in like a dirty 1980s, crime-riddled city.
	It's not like there's a bunch of tech outside of the RoboCop.
	So right now we are having real conflict in South Africa.
	But oh, how the times have changed, how it's been inverted now that the ruling class is indeed black.
	And it does seem like the white population are the ones that are now being persecuted in many regards.
	Now, I know there's some people that think that's hyped up, and I'm not calling it a quote-unquote white genocide.
	I am saying that they are targeting people who are white and landowners, and there is no repercussion for when they kill and then steal their land or steal their land and kill them.
	I mean, that's what I can say, and I think it's pretty grotesque.
	Let's continue with the RoboCop.
	And the president's first press conference from the Star Wars orbiting peace platform got off to a shaky start when power failed, causing a brief but harmless period of waitlessness for the visiting president and his staff.
	We'll be back in a moment.
	So, obviously, that's like goofy.
	Like, we know the president isn't going up there, etc.
	But, you know, let's keep watching these news briefs as they tell a small story.
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	Three dead police officers.
	So let's stop before we get to the three dead police officers in the crime.
	And they show you, I think they show you red in this next segment.
	We're moving into this era where, yes, we don't have fully artificial hearts, like full on total, not for human beings.
	You do have hybrids.
	And one of the things that's going on right now with the internet of bodies and things like xenotransplantation is they are trying to either grow the material.
	You know, you have the artificial kidneys, if you will, grown in pigs.
	But then you do have these devices that are constantly on.
	You know, when we play the internet of Bodies Rand Corporation piece here, she talks about the traditional pacemaker, for instance, and how, you know, a pacemaker's in there, it's not smart, it's not communicating.
	Now, what they put in there, they have Bluetooth.
	It's got a battery.
	You know, it's basically in communication with other devices all the time.
	It's a totally different thing.
	And that's going to evolve.
	So again, kudos to the RoboCop crew.
	And you notice, like, again, it's very corporatized.
	And our medical system has become that.
	I have hopes that RFK Jr. is going to turn that around.
	I don't know.
	We'll see.
	There's been a lot of talkie-talkie.
	We need a lot more action, action.
	I would say in the HHS field, at least, I see a lot more real movement.
	You look at with the Doge fiasco, and it doesn't look like any of that stuff is going to end up being cut.
	It's bad news, Brown.
	But let's continue.
	Police officers, one critically injured.
	Police union leaders blame Omni Consumer Products, OCP, the firm which recently entered into a contract with the city to fund and run the Detroit Metropolitan Police Department.
	Dick Jones, Division President, OCP.
	Every policeman knows when he joins the force that there are certain inherent risks that come with the territory.
	Ask any cop, he'll tell you.
	You can't stand the heat.
	You better stay out of the kitchen.
	Although seriously wounded, Officer Frank Fredrickson escaped and identified this man, Clarence Bodeker, unofficial crime boss of Old Detroit, now sought in connection with the deaths of 31 police officers.
	Today he's at large while doctors at Henry Ford Memorial Hospital fight to save the life of Officer Frank Fredrickson.
	And look, here's the deal.
	Obviously, we don't have that type of merger with city police and corporations yet.
	But on the peripheral, you look at the type of weapons, the type of systems that they have.
	Those are all produced third party.
	Surveillance systems, third party.
	With the Department of Homeland Security federalizing a lot of those surveillance systems and the software, you have that overarching sense, and that is very techno-fascistic.
	And you do have privatized security.
	You know, with that entire defund the quote-unquote police movement, you have seen the rise of private security forces that you usually saw in upper middle class to rich neighborhoods.
	But now even that is being turned into robots.
	You know, a lot of the security that goes around places like that, places like campuses, quite frankly, they've brought in the surveillance bots.
	Let's continue.
	Good luck, Frank.
	RoboCop.
	Who is he?
	What is he?
	Where does he come from?
	He is OCP's newest soldier in their revolutionary crime management program.
	OCP spokesman claimed that the fearless machine has cooks on the run in Old Detroit.
	Today, kids at Lee Iacoka Elementary School got to meet in person what their parents only read about in comic books.
	And again, again, for those that don't know about Lee Iacoka, very much, very much in that 80s parody spirit.
	Oh, excuse me, Robo.
	Any special message for all the kids watching at home?
	Stay out of trouble.
	More fighting in the Mexican crisis today when American troops participated in a joint raid with Mexican nationals against rebel rocket positions in Acapulco.
	Now this.
	Rat alert.
	You crossed my line of death.
	You haven't dismantled your MX stockpile.
	Pakistan is threatening my border.
	That's it, Buster.
	No more military aid.
	Nuke them.
	Get them before they get you.
	Once again, I mean, this film's got a lot of boom, boom, boom spot on.
	I mean, right now, with the conflict with Ukraine, with the fact that NATO does not seem to be backing down, we got Bilderberg coming up either, I think it's either this coming weekend or the week after.
	Going to be a lot of discussions there.
	Jen Sultenberg, former head of NATO, now a steering member there.
	We've moved into AI warfare.
	We've got Lavender literally naming terrorists.
	We have Palantir at the helm of that.
	And you've got lunatics.
	That God, Trump, isn't the one beating the drum or saying that, you know, there's a possibility of using these things, but that doesn't mean they're not going to be used.
	And so I get it.
	The 80s was that nuclear age.
	And this is a parody of Battleship.
	It's a damn good one.
	Another quality home game from Butler Brothers.
	Today, labor leaders agreed to sanction construction of OCP's Delta City, thereby creating an estimated 1 million much-needed new jobs, despite questions about workers' safety in dangerous Old Detroit.
	Robert Norton, Vice President, Security Concepts, OCP.
	I'm afraid I can't comment on Delta City.
	That's not my division, but I will tell you this.
	At Security Concepts, we're projecting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days.
	There's a new guy in town.
	His name's RoboCop.
	There's a new guy in town.
	Now, one of the other big things about this is that essentially OCP is building back better, if you will.
	Building a militarized surveillance state of a city.
	Very, very, very 1984-ish Orwellian.
	And, of course, they're the ones working with Bodaker And the other criminals to destabilize it so that they can gain access to it.
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	Good evening.
	I'm Jess Perkins with Casey Wong.
	Top story, Santa Barbara.
	10,000 acres of wooded residential land were scorched in an instant when a laser cannon aboard the Strategic Defense Peace Platform misfired today during routine startup tests.
	Casey?
	Yes, it was a day of mourning for the families of 113 people known dead at this hour.
	Among them, two former United States presidents who had retired in the Santa Barbara area.
	So let's just stop it.
	I know there's a lot of talk out there of directed energy weapons.
	Now you notice, number one, they cop to it here, but they say it's accidental and it sets things on fire.
	But you notice also that two ex-presidents died.
	So is this, again, alluding to political assassination via space weapons?
	A day of mourning for a country.
	Police union representatives and OCP continue negotiations today in hopes of averting a citywide strike by police scheduled to begin tomorrow at midnight.
	Justin Ballard Watkins has more.
	They're still on duty, but what about tomorrow?
	That's the question we put to people in the crime-plagued Lexington area.
	They're public servants.
	They got job security.
	They're not supposed to strike.
	It's a free society.
	Except there ain't nothing free, because there's no guarantees, you know.
	You're on your own.
	It's a lot of jungle.
	And that's it.
	Those are the news clips in RoboCop.
	So let's bring it on over here.
	We got to do a little magic.
	We tested it before, but of course, that did not work.
	So let's see.
	We got to do desktop and we do smart selection.
	And we're going to bring it right around, let's say, here.
	Thumbs it up, subscribe, and share, everybody.
	We're going to get that right into about there.
	And boom, look at that.
	Move it over a little bit.
	Let's get in on it.
	And then we're going to go to the 60 Minutes piece.
	We're going to take a little bit of your commentary here on that.
	And then we're going to get into the AI 60 Minutes piece.
	Let's see what everybody's got to say.
	Let's see.
	Look down the window.
	Just rained out in the garden.
	Let's get into some stuff.
	Yes, please support the broadcast.
	What do we got for commentary?
	Co-starring Red from That 70 Show.
	Yeah.
	Excellent bad guy in an excellent feature.
	You wish the sequels lived up to the first one, but they just didn't have the Bazinga.
	The Bazanga.
	I mean, they're okay.
	The reboot was awful.
	At least they could always run away from the ED209 down some stairs.
	Yes, that's the other big, like more militarized, less transhuman robot that is in the film.
	Let's see.
	Never write it.
	Always do it live.
	That's right.
	That's how we do it.
	Well, we always have an idea of what we're going to be talking about.
	WBAN Energy Harvesting Wirelessly Area Network and Blockchain.
	Discuss.
	How about no, Lady Green?
	Because that's not what we're talking about here.
	We're talking about autonomous weapons systems.
	We're talking about the art of the 80s in parody.
	Just that, you know, again, another day, another show.
	Like a mechanized Rockefeller.
	Let's see, mining helium on the moon.
	How about, listen, we told you what we were going to discuss.
	This isn't your show.
	If you got a show, do it.
	We have talked about LiDAR.
	I saw first little sentence there.
	I mean, come on now.
	So once again, we're going to go to the 60 Minutes AI piece, right now, autonomous AI piece.
	And if you want to get your questions and comments on this, that's what we're going to be reading.
	So let's get it going.
	Here comes 60 Minutes and Palmer Lucky.
	By now, we've all heard about Elon Musk's efforts to reshape the U.S. government.
	But tonight, we'll introduce you to another tech billionaire, one who set his sights on radically changing the way the Pentagon buys and uses weapons.
	His name is Palmer Lucky, and he's the founder of Andrel, a California defense products company.
	Lucky says for too long, the U.S. military has relied on overpriced and outdated technology.
	He argues a Tesla has better AI than any U.S. aircraft, and a Roomba vacuum has better autonomy than most of the Pentagon's weapon systems.
	So Andrel is making a line of autonomy.
	Let me just stop it right there.
	When he's talking about the weapon systems being autonomous, like a vacuum cleaner, you don't want those types of weapon systems to be autonomous.
	You want a person or many people at the helm of those decisions because you don't want automated death merchants.
	So everything that was said there about the autonomous nature of weapons versus consumer products, it's a red herring.
	It's a misnomer.
	Autonomous weapons that operate using artificial intelligence, no human required.
	Some international groups have called those types of weapons killer robots.
	But Palmer Lucky says it is the future of warfare.
	The story will continue in a moment.
	I've always said that we need to transition from being the world police to being the world gun store.
	Do we want to be the world's gun store?
	I think so.
	I think we have to.
	Says the guy who sells weapons.
	See, I agree, it sounds self-fulfilling, but you have to remember: I also got into this industry because I believe that.
	Palmer Lucky isn't your typical defense industry.
	He's not your typical.
	Like, this is a whole new, like, Elon Musk wasn't your typical rocket man.
	Like, Bull Snap.
	Bull Snap.
	They've been selling us on these people that look harmless.
	Like, you had traditional Dork Gates, and they tried to cool him up, couldn't cool him, so they made him look more harmless in little pink sweaters.
	But as soon as the Google era got out there, everything was laid back, and it was Mocha Chino, bro.
	Nobody remembers that movie?
	It's early 2000s, maybe like 2010.
	I think it's like the interns or something.
	Let's look it up.
	It's Owen Wilson Google movie with, man, the other guy there.
	Let's see.
	No, the internship.
	Yeah.
	It's the 2013.
	So not early 2000s.
	But even like, I guess, man, again, that's 12 years ago now.
	But they're still trying to sell you on how cool and hip Google is.
	And, you know, it's not like all these other companies.
	No, it's just, it's worse because it portrays itself as something completely different.
	and it's totally about narrative management, about the military-industrial complex.
	...executive.
	His daily uniform, flip-flops and a Hawaiian shirt, is more suited for Margaritaville than the military.
	But the 32-year-old billionaire is the founder of Andrel, whose line of American-made autonomous weapons...
	Looks like it came straight out of a sci-fi movie, and whose slick marketing videos wouldn't be out of place in one.
	There's the Roadrunner, a twin turbojet-powered drone interceptor that can take off, identify, and strike.
	If it doesn't find a target, it can land and try again.
	Andrew also makes headsets, which allow soldiers to see 360 degrees in combat.
	And there's this.
	It's an electromagnetic warfare system that can be programmed to jam enemy systems, knocking out drone swarms.
	And look, this is modern warfare.
	And this is just what they're showing you, right?
	One of the other things that he stated really early on is he wants the United States to go from the world's policeman to the world's gun store.
	We're already kind of both.
	And as far as the world's gun store, no.
	Like I said, there are always going to be competitors.
	And those competitors are going to be the ones at the top of the military industrial complex with us.
	And we better hope that there are actually competitors.
	Because once you have a power that is so militarized that it no longer has any kind of competition, well, you're on that road to a quote-unquote new world order.
	You're on that road to collectivism under one authoritarian state.
	That's just, no matter what else they feed you, what else they sell you, what else they tell you it is, that is what it will become.
	All right, let's keep going.
	It's not some futuristic fantasy.
	Andrew's systems are already being used by the U.S. military and in the war in Ukraine.
	We shouldn't be sending our people to stand in other countries, putting our men and women, our sons and daughters, at risk for the sovereignty of other nations.
	You'd rather have an American-made product in their hands than our soldiers over there.
	Absolutely, every time.
	And I think that that's one of the reasons that autonomy is so powerful.
	Right now, there's so many weapon systems that require manning.
	You know, if I can have one guy commanding and controlling 100 aircraft, that's a lot easier than having to have a pilot in every single one, and it puts a lot fewer American lives at risk.
	To be clear, autonomy does not mean remote control.
	Once an autonomous weapon is programmed and given a task, it can use artificial intelligence for surveillance or to identify, select, and engage targets.
	And remember, all of this is just programming.
	And continually you hear this argument about saving lives, right?
	But as Annie Jacobson in her Pentagon's brain book about DARPA, when they talk about the battlefield is no place for humans, she asked the great question, well, where are they?
	And these weapon systems aren't just there to blow up the truck with nobody in it.
	They're there to blow up the truck with people in it.
	They are still systems of death.
	And we've also seen military technology creep its way into what, our law enforcement technology.
	Hence why we started with RoboCop.
	No operator needed.
	It's a scary idea to some people.
	It's a scary idea, but I mean, that's the world we live in.
	I'd say it's a lot scarier, for example, to imagine a weapon system that doesn't have any level of intelligence at all.
	There's no moral high ground in making a landmine that can't tell the difference between a school bus full of children in Russian armor.
	It's not a question between smart weapons and no weapons.
	Now, you know, let's dive in to the landmine comment.
	Yeah.
	Landmines are still causing the death of innocent people decades after the wars that they've been involved with.
	Landmine fields.
	Okay?
	That's not a good thing either.
	Two wrongs Don't make a right.
	Trying to point out the faults with things like that in trying to promote something that is going to be programmed to kill without any human oversight, at least with the landmines, you know, the overall place where they are.
	You know the geographic region where they are because human beings have done it.
	Now, you can make the argument that once the AI deploys that weapon system, after the fact, you know when it's acted.
	But there's also the decommission of any of these landmine fields.
	I'm not saying that's good, but they do often go in there and try to get rid of as many as possible.
	Let's continue.
	It's a question between smart weapons and dumb weapons.
	Lucky showed us how those so-called smart weapons can be synchronized on Andrew's AI platform.
	It's called Lattice.
	Lattice collects data from various sensors and sources, including satellites, drones, radar, and cameras, allowing, he says, the AI to analyze, move assets, and execute missions faster than a human.
	If you were having to require the human operator to actually map every single action and say, hey, do this, if that, then this, it would take so long to manage it that you would be better off just remotely piloting it.
	It's the AI on board all these weapons that makes it possible to make it so easy.
	There are lots of people who go, oh, AI, I don't know, I don't trust it.
	It's going to go rogue.
	I would say that it is something to be aware of, but in the grand scheme of things, things to be afraid of, there's things that I'm much more terrified of.
	And I'm a lot more worried about evil people with mediocre advances in technology than AI deciding that it's going to wipe us all out.
	First of all, this zero-sum game of AI wiping us all out, Skynet, that's not really my concern, especially at this moment.
	My concern is that it will be utilized in a manner that its targets have no chance because that's what it's being programmed for.
	When we're talking about these types of weapons of war, it's done sauce for you.
	And I know that everybody points to that black mirror episode with a little crawly thing coming at you.
	That's just like one small example.
	A drone moves pretty quick.
	Its weapons system moves pretty damn quick.
	So who gets the power and the oversight?
	And the problem, the biggest problem is it's total plausible deniability.
	Because inherently these things are going to make mistakes, because people make mistakes.
	But they're also, that gives a great cover for when a target is hit and people are outraged.
	Oh, that was a mistake.
	AI did that.
	Okay, sure.
	Lucky says all Angel's weapons have a kill switch that allow a human operator to intervene if needed.
	But the Secretary General of the United Nations has called lethal autonomous weapons, quote, politically unacceptable and morally repugnant.
	When people say to you, look, it's evil, how do you respond to that?
	I usually don't bother because if I am an argue with them, I usually poke it.
	I'm like, okay, so do you think that NATO should be armed with squirt guns or slingshots?
	How about sternly?
	Or how about we shouldn't be a part of NATO?
	How about that?
	Like, again, no one's saying that NATO should be armed with squirt guns.
	NATO should probably not even exist.
	Just haven't done anything positive in the past few years for the United States in many ways.
	Worded letters.
	Would you like that?
	Would you like it if NATO just have a bunch of guys sitting at typewriters, a thousand monkeys writing letters to Vladimir Putin begging him to not invade Ukraine?
	Our entire society exists because of old poop poot.
	Old poop poot in the Ukraine argument.
	That trope.
	That's what this guy pulls out.
	But hey, he's got a wacky shirt.
	He's got a wacky haircut.
	Huh?
	He looks like he could play bass in a Jimmy Buffett cover band, huh?
	Look at that.
	A credible backstop of violence threatened by the United States and our allies all over the world.
	And thank goodness for it.
	It might sound flit, but part of Palmer-Lucky's philosophy is that autonomous weapons ultimately promote peace by scaring adversaries away.
	My position has been that the United States needs to arm our allies and partners around the world so that they can be prickly porcupines that nobody wants to step on.
	Nobody wants to bite them.
	In your mind, is it enough just to have all these things as deterrents?
	Or do they have to be deployed and used?
	They have to believe that you can use them.
	By the end of this year, Andrew.
	Now, again, from a military standpoint, you do want to be there from a position of strength.
	And they have to be believable in order to be a deterrent from whatever type of behavior is out there.
	I'm not saying there isn't any gray area.
	I'm not saying we don't need a military.
	I'm just saying the further and further that we dive down this autonomous route, the more dangerous it is for human beings everywhere, even here in westernized nations, not just with the military, but with the fact that you're probably going to see these type of weapon systems deployed through the police and law enforcement avenues as well.
	Says it will have secured more than $6 billion in government contracts worldwide.
	When you first came into this space and you're a tech guy in a Hawaiian shirt and you're walking into the Pentagon, maybe in flip-flops, I don't know.
	Were you welcomed with open arms?
	There were a very small number of people who welcomed me with open arms and everyone else thought that I was nuts.
	Nuts because there hasn't been a new company in the defense industry in a significant way since the end of the Cold War.
	Total lie.
	Total lie.
	See, this is why 60 Minutes is total garbage.
	Let me tell you a company that has been huge for the military-industrial complex and the defense contracting industry that's been around, that hasn't been around post-World War II.
	We're not talking about GE, we're not talking about Boeing, we're not talking about Lockheed, Raytheon, etc.
	We're talking about what?
	Elon Musk, SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla, the whole kid and caboodle.
	The whole Muskernuts thing.
	All of it.
	All of it.
	I mean, you could also argue, you know, things like BlackRock are now military industrial complex contractors as well.
	But I mean, the old Muskerdew and SpaceX and Starlink and Tesla, I mean, they've been huge.
	Huge.
	That should just let you know how vapid and literally ignorant this woman is.
	For decades, five defense contractors called the Primes have dominated the industry.
	And notice, none of the Musk companies are up there.
	If they really were worried about exposing...
	They really wanted to expose them.
	They could.
	They're not.
	Industry.
	Typically, the Primes present an idea to the Pentagon.
	If the Pentagon buys it, the government pays for the company to develop it, even if it's late or goes over budget.
	Lucky started Andrew to flip that procurement structure on its head.
	The idea behind Andrew was to build not a defense contractor, but a defense product company.
	What's the difference?
	Contractors, in general, are paid to do work, whether or not it succeeds.
	A product company has a very different mentality.
	You're putting in your own money.
	You're putting in your own time.
	My vision was to build a company that would show up not with a PowerPoint describing how taxpayers are going to pay all my bills, but with a working product where all the risk has been baked out that will work for enough things that you can save our country hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
	It may not surprise you that Palmer Lucky's father was a car salesman.
	His mother took on the role of homeschooling him and his three sisters.
	Lucky says he was fascinated by electronics and spent a lot of time tinkering in his parents' garage in Long Beach, California.
	By age 19, his tinkering turned into Oculus, the virtual reality company.
	And at 21, Palmer Lucky fulfilled every young founder's dream when he sold Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion.
	The Wonder Kid graced the covers of magazines, but two years later, he was fired from Facebook.
	Why did you get fired?
	Well, you know, everyone's got a different story, but it boils down to I gave $9,000 to a political group that was for Donald Trump and against Hillary Clinton to be a Trump supporter in 2016.
	You know, this was at the height of the election insanity and derangement in Silicon Valley.
	And so I think that a lot of people thought back then that you could just fire a Trump supporter.
	Well, they did.
	And here's the thing.
	I'm not trying to make this about Donald Trump.
	All right.
	One of the odd things about that, and I don't even know if that story is true, I just know that he got fired.
	And they did make it into this big thing of TDS, especially in Silicon Valley.
	Facebook and Meta, okay, they were pushed through, pushed through with Peter Thiel, Trump's technology advisor.
	Okay, now at the time, you know, obviously he wasn't the technology advisor in 2016 when we're having the election.
	Thiel has also backstabbed Trump.
	But clearly, clearly there was some kind of amendment between the two.
	And clearly, he drove the last push of this latest Trump campaign with the J.D. Vance, with the podcasting stuff.
	All right?
	So I'm just putting out there, I don't think it's as black and white as Facebook loves liberalism.
	And now, like, you know, Zuck's trying to rebrand.
	Let's keep going.
	Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has denied that Lucky was fired for his political views.
	What do you think now when you see those tech leaders, Mark Zuckerberg, lined up behind President Trump now at his inauguration?
	I am inclined to let every single one of them get away with it.
	Look.
	What do you mean, get away with it?
	Coming around to a point of view that is more aligned with the American people broadly, I think is good for the country.
	I think it is not good for you to have techno-corpo elites that are radically out of step with where the American people are.
	Again, this guy's being pitched as the everyman.
	Sounds pretty sensible.
	And that's one thing that they have tried to do within the media is promote the militarized tech bros, the blockchain bros, to the Trumps, to the MAGAs, to the diehards, to the conservatives that came over from being neocons, et cetera, or the Democrats that came over to this new Republicanism that was more like being a Democrat.
	2017, Leckie says he left Silicon Valley with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank and a chip on his shoulder.
	I was fired at the height of my career.
	My gears were ground, and I really wanted to prove that I was somebody, that I was not a one-hit wonder, and that I still had it in me to do big things.
	He says he thought about starting companies to combat obesity or fix the prison system, but ultimately decided to break into the defense industry.
	Have you run into any people who don't take you seriously because you were never in the military?
	I don't think so.
	I think I owe that to the James Bond franchise.
	Everyone in the military has seen James Bond movies and they all like you, right?
	I'm the wacky gadget man.
	I'm the guy who types on the computer and pushes up my glasses and then gives them a strange thing to help them accomplish their mission.
	And this is his laboratory, Andrew's 640,000 square foot headquarters in Costa Mesa, California.
	It's a mix of high-tech carpentry and robotic engineering.
	A sign on the floor pokes fun at the boss's shoe choice.
	But Lucky wanted to show us something off campus.
	We hopped in his 1985 Humvee.
	The billionaire told us he also owns a decommissioned Blackhawk helicopter, a 48-crew submarine, and a Navy speedboat.
	Likes the military stuff.
	And by the way, because we are on the tail end of the broadcast, we did get blocked by YouTube.
	I don't know whether it was the 60 Minutes.
	You know, again, doing commentary on these type of things, totally, especially because it's supposed to be a news organization, totally in fair use.
	If it was for the RoboCop stuff, still fair use.
	But it is more and more difficult to do this type of stuff.
	So now, again, we're going to get to, I mean, the haircut guy, we're going to get to know him a little bit better on the boat.
	In Dana Point, we took a ride 15 minutes off the coast to see the largest weapon in Andrew's arsenal, this submarine.
	It's called the Dive XL.
	It's about the size of a school bus and works autonomously.
	It's not remotely controlled by this computer.
	It's doing it on the brain, on the submarine itself.
	So if I told it to go off and perform some mission months long, like go to this target, listen for this particular signature.
	And if you see this signature run, if you see this one, that was a hide, if you see this one follow it, it can do that all on its own without being detected, without communicating with it.
	Andrell says the Dive XL can travel a thousand miles fully submerged.
	Australia has already invested $58 million in the subs to help defend its seas from China.
	But Andrew's most anticipated weapon has been closely guarded until this month.
	Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
	What is it?
	Inside this hangar, Andrew's unmanned fighter jet called Fury.
	There is no cockpit or stick or rudder because there's no pilot.
	The idea is that you're building a robotic fighter jet that is, you know, flying with manned fighters and is doing what you ask it to do, recommending things that be done, taking risks that you don't want human pilots to take.
	Fury represents a big turning point for the company.
	Andrew was viewed by some inside the defense industry as a tech bro startup until it beat out several of the prime defense contractors to make an unmanned fighter jet for the Air Force.
	Fury is scheduled to take its first test flight this summer.
	If selected by the Pentagon, it, like all Landral products, will be produced in the U.S. The war games say we're going to run out of munitions in eight days in a fight with China.
	If we have to fight Iran and China...
	If you think that the military in a conflict with China or Russia is going to run out of weapons and ammo in eight, that's ridiculous.
	I just, I don't, all the war, I don't know what information this person has.
	But again, there's a reason that Trump was out there talking about our other types of weapon systems.
	China and Russia all at the same time, we are screwed.
	If we go to war, right?
	Your version of what Andrew's place is in a conflict.
	How do you view it?
	I think what we're going to be doing is first connecting a lot of these systems that otherwise would not have been talking to one another.
	We're going to be making large numbers of cruise missiles, large numbers of fighter jets, large numbers of surface and subsurface systems.
	I guess I would hope that Andrew is making most of the stuff that's being used on day 9, day 10, day 11, day 100.
	I think a lot of that is going to be coming out of our factories after everything else is run dry.
	I don't want to be in a conflict with any first world nation.
	I want to be in conflict with the third and second world nations that we're in now.
	But if we're talking a world war, first of all, one of the big pitches is that this is going to stop World War III.
	If we're talking about conflicts that are going 100 days in against these first world, I mean, the planet, the planet, folks, does not look the same.
	Be wary of anybody that's trying to sell you on these autonomous AI weapons systems.
	All right.
	That's all I'm going to say.
	I'm disappointed that we weren't able to go to your questions and comments at the end and that YouTube took the video down, but not a shocker as well.
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