Podcast Episodes

116. Do Androids Dream of Electric War: The Reality of Autonomous Weapons with Dr. Mark Bailey

Season 1 Episode 116

“I think there’s a moral question that one has to ask in general about whether it’s appropriate for a machine to make a decision as to whether or not a human ought to live or die”

[Editor’s Note:  As…

Published on 6 hours ago

115. 15 Layers Deep: Supporting Soldiers with Geospatial Intelligence

Season 1 Episode 115

[Editor’s Note:  As observed in TRADOC Pamphlet 525-92, The Operational Environment 2024-2034: Large-Scale Combat Operations:

“LSCO will be marked by the democratization and proliferation of advanced…

Published on 2 weeks ago

114. Data to Dominance: AI & Gaming to Create Decision Advantage with Jon Pan

Season 1 Episode 114

“Agentic warfare is here, whether we welcome it or not. The era of military planners manually gathering limited data and compiling static crisis response options on briefing slides is over.  In the n…

Published on 4 weeks ago

113. Beyond Venture Capital: How the Government is Investing in Innovation

Season 1 Episode 113

[Editor’s Note:  Regular readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory understand the transformative potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have on the character of warf…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

112. Battle Tested: Revolutionizing Wargaming with AI featuring Dr. Billy Barry

Season 1 Episode 112

Today’s The Convergence podcast welcomes back proclaimed Mad Scientist Dr. Billy Barry, Professor of Emerging Technology at the U.S. Army War College, to discuss his latest innovation — an Artificial…

Published on 5 months ago

111. Tactical Tech: How Smartphones are Countering Jamming in Ukraine with Dr. Sean Gorman

Season 1 Episode 111

“The hope is that we can begin to profile what the capabilities of the jammer are that we’re seeing out in the field with enough measurements from enough devices”

[Editor’s Note:  In last week’s po…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

110. Generative AI: The New Ammunition in the Data Arms Race with Ben Van Roo

Season 1 Episode 110

[Editor’s Note:  Today’s The Convergence podcast welcomes back Ben Van Roo, recent author of our Unlocking TRADOC’s Potential with GenAI: Opportunities and Challenges blog post, to continue our exp…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

109. Ghosts in the Battlespace: The UAP Threat with the James Gang

Season 1 Episode 109

“We have craft that defy physics as we know it and are moving at speeds that are at least a hundred times faster than anything a human or robot… can produce on the planet.”

[Editor’s Note:  Today’s T…

Published on 7 months ago

108. Soldier Dominance and Battlefield Primacy

Season 1 Episode 108

Soldier Dominance and Battlefield Primacy

“What we’ve got to think about is, how do we make our Soldiers more effective, how do we maintain that battlefield primacy for our commanders, for our Soldie…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

107. Hybrid Intelligence: Sustaining Adversary Overmatch with Dr. Billy Barry, LTC Blair Wilcox, & TIM

Season 1 Episode 107

[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist continues our series of blog posts and podcasts in the run up to our Game On! Wargaming & The Operational Environment Conference, co-hosted with the Georgetown Univ…

Published on 10 months ago