U.S. spending on legacy weapons mirrors Kodak investing in film
Gregory Allen · a16z Podcast | Autonomy in Service · Jan 2, 2019 · at 25:52
Gregory Allen critiques U.S. military procurement strategy, arguing that congressional budget priorities favor legacy hardware over AI research and development.
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“The most recent defense budget basically said, let's buy a ton more weapons, of weapons that have already been designed. And politically, that's incredibly popular, right, because those weapons are built in congressional districts all over America. It's very easy to say, let's just spread the money around. But in my view, that's the equivalent of Kodak in 1991, radically increasing its investment in film cameras. Right. You're buying a lot of stuff that is probably going to be obsolete in the not too distant future.”
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