Yaroslav Azhnyuk
Founder & CEO, The Fourth Law. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Yaroslav Azhnyuk is the co-founder and former CEO of Petcube, a startup producing connected pet devices. Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he moved into defense technology, founding The Fourth Law to build AI guidance systems for FPV drones and Odd Systems to manufacture drone hardware.
1shows
1appearances
28statements
8resolved
7supported
0contradicted
88%fully supported
Everything Yaroslav Azhnyuk said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Azhnyuk: FPV Drones Cause 70% to 80% of Frontline Casualties
“Out of all the casualties on the frontline, between 70 and 80% are done by FPV drones.”
Azhnyuk: In 5-10 years, using weapons without AI will be immoral
“I think, you know, to your point, I think five to 10 years from now, it will be immoral to use weapons without AI. Because weapons without AI will be more likely to cause collateral damage or unwanted damage.”
Azhnyuk: Nuclear Weapons Are Now the Only Credible Deterrence
“Someone, someone someone could argue that if a country currently doesn't work on their own nuclear program, They're doing a disservice to their country and the government should be fired. Like, because it seems like from the recent world history that, that, th…”
Azhnyuk: Wartime survival demands building weapons before calculating ethics edge cases
“When you're in a situation where you're in a forest in front of a wolf, you know, you first gonna deal with the wolf that wants to eat you, and then you're gonna go consult Greenpeace. So that's kind of situation that Ukraine is in.”
Azhnyuk: The Fourth Law leads in on-drone AI and thermal imaging
“And this group of companies is currently the leading team in on-drone AI and thermal imaging on the Ukrainian battlefield. And likely one of the leading, if not the leading in the world.”
Azhnyuk: The Fourth Law starting construction on two semiconductor plants
“And we're about to start construction of two semiconductor plants to make sensors for thermal cameras.”
Azhnyuk: Full autonomy increases FPV drone capability by 10,000 times
“Such full autonomy increases the capabilities of an FPV drone, which is already, like, three orders more powerful than an artillery shell. Full autonomy increases its capabilities by four orders of magnitude, because now you can have a hundred times as many pe…”
Azhnyuk: Humanoid robots might be useful in combat within five years
“I would have said that, you know, I don't think that humanoid robots will be able to be useful in the battlefield earlier than in 10 years. But, you know, if you account for the exponential it might be, you know, five years or so.”
Azhnyuk: The West Lacks Key Technology and Manufacturing to Counter China
“So we lack technology, we lack mass manufacturing capacity, we lack the components, and we lack the rare earth materials. Sort of four layers in which we're behind this challenge.”
Azhnyuk: Front-strike helicopters will see increasingly reduced battlefield usage
“Front strike helicopters, I think we're going to be seeing fewer and fewer of them.”
Azhnyuk: Warfare has shifted from multi-billion platforms to rapidly iteratable mass
“It's no longer about an aircraft carrier that costs whatever, fourteen billion dollars, and takes forever to build. It's about mass, ah, that is, you can iterate on very quickly, you can upgrade it, everyone can operate it, and then that mass, when it is combi…”
Azhnyuk: Drones make warfare software-defined for first time in history
“Warfare is redefined by drones as platforms, and for the first time in history, you have a platform that is software-defined, ah, that can increase your battlefield capabilities, ah, you know, in, in a step change just overnight. So, it's like, if you were abl…”
Azhnyuk: The Fourth Law supplies cameras and autonomy to over 200 Ukrainian drone makers
“So the cameras and drone autonomy sell daytime and nighttime cameras and different types of drone autonomous modules. To other drone manufacturers, over 200 drone manufacturers in Ukraine.”
Azhnyuk: Standard 10-Inch Ukrainian FPV Drones Strike at 30-40 Kilometers
“Many hits are happening between 30 and 40 kilometers, and that's what expected from a regular 10 inch, ah, FPV drone.”
Azhnyuk: FPV drone autonomy hardware costs hundreds of dollars in BOM
“When you put full autonomy on that FPV drone, which can be not very expensive, like systems that we're producing, they're like hundreds of dollars of pure bomb costs.”
Azhnyuk: Terminal guidance boosted Ukrainian drone pilot's success rate to 71%
“So just that feature alone it has increased the guy's call sign is Grom. So it has increased his mission success rate, like, precision, yeah, mission success rate from 20% to 71%, and it also increased his kill zone from three kilometers to 10 kilometers, whic…”
Azhnyuk: Ukraine made 4M FPV drones last year with 7M targeted this year
“Last year alone, Ukraine manufactured about four million of these, and then Russia's maybe, like, 20% less than that. And for this year, the publicly voiced target was seven million on the Ukrainian side.”
Azhnyuk: Driving cars manually will eventually be considered immoral
“Same way, it will be immoral to drive your own car manually on a public road because it's more likely to cause unwanted damage.”
Azhnyuk: Inexpensive local hardware now runs near-SOTA open-source AI models
“You can have basically an inexpensive computer running, you know, what was a state of the art model year and a half ago, running it locally on a device with an open source model, which also means that the Chinese can have it, the Russians can have it, the Nort…”
Azhnyuk: Replacing human infantry with autonomous weapons is not near
“I'm not seeing that very close. And it was like, I'm, you know, as much as I'm a lover of sci-fi and all of that, and a technologist, the more I try to be Like, I tried to have certain humility about these things and like the military domain, and there was jus…”
Azhnyuk: China Leads the US in EVs and Humanoid Robotics
“And then if we look at, you know, electric car race, I think they're ahead of the US and ahead of the whole world, definitely ahead of Europe, which used to be sort of a car superpower. When you look at AI, I think they're almost where we are, maybe slightly b…”
Azhnyuk: Xerov Shahed interceptor drone reaches 326 km/h
“Look Shahed interceptor, like ours is called Xerov. It goes up to 326 kilometers per hour.”
Azhnyuk: Standard 155mm NATO artillery shells cost about $4,000 each
“An artillery shell for one 55 caliber, ah, which is a standard NATO caliber, currently market price is about 4000 dollars per piece.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Yaroslav's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 LATENT SPACELEDGER | Founder & CEO, The Fourth Law | 1 | 28 | 88% 7/8 | full record on Latent Space → |