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Bry: Autonomous AI Strikes Cause Less Collateral Damage Than Unguided Bombs
“Oftentimes, you know, your choice if you want to take out a target is dropping a 500 or 2000 pound bomb, which is going to cause widespread destruction and a lot of collateral damage. And so, an AI system that might be using autonomy to, like, a pretty intense…”
Adam Bry Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 35:45 Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
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Bry: Modern Military Conflict Is Becoming a Software-Writing Fight
“I think a modern conflict becomes basically like a software writing fight.”
Adam Bry Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 0:16 Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
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Bry: Tech firms should bear R&D risk while military buys products
“I think Andrew in particular has done a nice job of trying to sort of like advocate for this new model where companies should be taking product development risk and the government should be focused on, on, on just buying the best product, which is, is difficul…”
Adam Bry Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 18:46 AI & The Future of Modern Warfare
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Bry: Winning in Defense AI Is More Critical Than Hardware Scale
“You can't forget about the hardware and the manufacturing capacity. You need to be able to do that stuff, but winning on the AI front I think is, is even more important.”
Adam Bry Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 16:34 Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
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Bry: Relinquishing Control Over Kinetic Weapon Outcomes Is Not a New Concept
“At the conceptual level, a lot of these things are less new than they seem. So like, you know, dropping a bomb in World War II, like once that thing leaves the bomber, it's autonomous. Now it's, you know, it's pretty dumb autonomy, but there's no, you know, hu…”
Adam Bry Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 38:42 Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
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Bry: Regions Building iPhones Hold the Ecosystem for Manufacturing Drones
“I always say, like, wherever they're building iPhones, they're gonna have a really good ecosystem for building drones and other kinds of electronics.”
Adam Bry Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 11:50 Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
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Brie: Autonomous flight is essential for scaling drone applications
“Most of them, we think at their core, in order to really work and in order to really scale, need an autonomous foundation.”
Adam Bry Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:49 a16z Podcast | The Self-Flying Camera
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