military

“We, look, we have been we've been arming our police force mistakenly like our military. And we've been doing it for, you know, decades now, and it makes no sense.”

“For example, the military spends 40% of their budget, over four hundred billion dollars, on maintenance.”

“Military as a percentage of the GDP, or as a percentage of the budget, has been, you know, relatively stable, and in some cases decreasing since, since the end of the Iraq War.”

“I oftentimes go and do guest lectures at Stanford, and I always try to ask, like, raise your hand if you have an immediate family member that serves in the military. No one ever raises their hand.”

“Artificial intelligence actually just gives the military the opportunity to, one, operate at a greater scale and then operate more efficiently. These aren't robots actually just making decisions on when to go to war or not.”

“The Mansfield amendment in six, nine, 71 named after Mike Mansfield of Montana said, okay, the military can no longer fund blue sky research inside of our university system, unless it has a direct military express military purpose.”