Sarah Shoker
Senior research scholar at UC Berkeley and former lead of the geopolitics team at OpenAI, specializing in testing and evaluation of generative AI and its impacts on warfare and military AI integration.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 1h 29min
Silicon Valley Goes to War
Paul Scharre, Pentagon policy veteran now at CNAS, offers deep expertise on autonomous weapons. Dr. Sarah Shoker, UC Berkeley researcher and former OpenAI geopolitics lead, studies generative AI in warfare. They discuss how AI is woven into targeting and logistics. They probe tech firms’ ties to the military, opacity of contracts, governance options, escalation risks, and hardware as a policy lever.
