The <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ai-use-iran-war/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">military use of AI</a> is capturing headlines this month. After a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/technology/anthropic-openai-pentagon-dario-amodei-sam-altman.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SVA.LACs.6pF3D4cHKobX&smid=url-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dustup with the Pentagon</a>, the AI company Anthropic is out, and OpenAI is in. Meanwhile, in the US war with Iran, AI is being <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-aipowered-war-machines-are-here" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">deployed in ways we’ve never seen</a>.
To make sense of it all, Host Flora Lichtman talks with journalist Karen Hao, who covers AI and is the author of the book Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI.
Guest:
 Karen Hao is a tech journalist and author of the book Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI.
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