Podcast Episodes

The Drone Wars: How Consumer Tech Is Shaping the Ukraine War

Season 1 Episode 58

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Michael Kofman (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Rob Lee (Foreign Policy Research Institute) and Andrey Liscovich (UkraineDefenseFund.org) how the proliferat…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

All Things AI: An Interview With White House AI Guru Ben Buchanan

Season 1 Episode 57

Dmitri Alperovitch comes to the White House to interview Dr. Ben Buchanan, the White House Special Advisor on AI, about:

- The risks and benefits of AI

- What the US government is trying to achieve w…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Why Chinese Economy Is Heading For Stagnation, Not Collapse

Season 1 Episode 56

Dmitri Alperovitch and guest co-host Patrick Gray interview Alicia García-Herrero, a Spanish-born economist based in the indo-Pacific and who specializes on China.

They discussed why China has exhaus…

Published on 2 years ago

Why Quantum Computing May be Overhyped but AI isn’t: Interview with the NSA

Season 1 Episode 55

Dmitri Alperovitch interviews Gilbert Herrera, Director of Research at the National Security Agency (NSA) and a member of the U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee.

They discussed the c…

Published on 2 years ago

How Ukraine Can Benefit From ATACMS Missiles

Season 1 Episode 54

ATACMS episode:

- What variants of the missile exist

- What unique advantages they offer over already provided Storm Shadows / SCALP-EGs from UK and France

- How many missiles may exist in the US inv…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Starlink in Ukraine: Why the Story Is Not So Simple

Season 1 Episode 53

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Patrick Gray, host of Risky Business podcast, about why the Starlink-Elon saga is much more complicated than it might seem at first glance. Blaming Elon for his Crimea a…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Why 702 is America’s most valuable intelligence program: Interview with the FBI

Season 1 Episode 52

Dmitri Alperovitch sits down with Bryan Vorndran, Assistant Director of FBI's Cyber Division, to discuss why FISA Section 702 is by far the most valuable intelligence program in the US government's a…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

What the Death of Prigozhin Means for Wagner, Russia and Ukraine

Season 1 Episode 51

Dmitri Alperovitch talks to Russian military analyst Rob Lee and Wagner Group expert Jack Margolin about the implications of reports of Prigozhin's fiery death in a plane crash in Russia.

Where does …

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

How Russian Intelligence operatives have attacked Ukraine in cyberspace: Interview with Ukrainian Security Service

Season 1 Episode 50

In this joint Geopolitics Decanted and Risky Business feature interview, Dmitri Alperovitch and Patrick Gray talk to Illia Vitiuk, the Head of the Department of Cyber and Information Security of the …

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Why Reports of the US Dollar’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Season 1 Episode 49

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with geoeconomist Douglas Rediker (Senior Fellow at Brookings and formerly with the IMF Executive Board) about the enduring dominance of the U.S. dollar and why it won't chan…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago