National Security
topic on 5 shows · 11 statements across 11 episodes
More or Less 
No Priors 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In 
20VC
11 statements about National Security, every show
Ulevitch: National security is impossible without a reliable electrical grid
“There is no safety, there is no national defense, there is no national security without a reliable electrical grid.”
Fanelli: Record Number of Companies Seeking National Security Contracts
“We have more companies than we've ever seen before who want to work on national security.”
Krieger: Nations Should Not Distill AI Models From Other Countries
“I think the places where this gets interesting are, one, do we want any nation to be able to be able to distill models from any other ones? Like, My personal answer is no. I think that there's value in like, even like as AI gains and capabilities being really …”
Schimpf: Sam Altman publicly committed OpenAI to supporting US national defense
“Sam especially has been very clear that he supports our war fighters and he cares about having the best minds in AI working on national security and like who better exists to work through these hard problems.”
Clerico: Wildfires are an overlooked national security threat to critical infrastructure
“You know, I actually think there's a really big national security issue here around wildfire that doesn't really get talked about, but like, you know, okay, one thing to do to a neighborhood, but what about a military base? You know, what about a nuclear power…”
Sam Lessin: TikTok is the biggest unforced national security blunder in history
“I've said for years that this is like the number one unforced national security history issue, probably in history.”
Midha: AI models have largely avoided dual-use national security categorization
“And by and large, AI models have not been categorized as being dual use or protected under national security.”
Chamath: Near-free energy will create a peace dividend in 10-20 years
“Not only will energy be free and abundant, but it will, I think over the next decade or two, create a massive peace dividend. It will rewrite our foreign policy. It will rewrite national security.”
Sacks: Documents found at Mar-a-Lago do not pose a national security threat
“I do not think these documents pose a threat to natural security.”
Wilcox: Centralized personal data databases are a national security threat
“But as we've learned over the last couple of years, this isn't safe, it's not scalable, and it's ballooned from not just being a personal security problem, and not just being a business security problem, but even being a national security problem.”