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253. The Cold War Origins and Future of Today’s AI

This Machine Kills

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The Military Kanyism of the Cold War

The military is more profligate in its spending than ever before, and refuses to have ownership over what it spends money on. Schmitz America's Frontier Fund had to be created as a private venture, rather than created as a public one backed by the Pentagon. And so what Morazov argues is that this is not military Keynesianism. This isn't, this is more like military neoliberalism. The groundwork for this has been being laid for a very long time," says Julian Zelizer.

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