The AI Policy Podcast

Katrina Manson, Bloomberg journalist and author of Project Maven, walks through the rise of AI in modern warfare. She recounts Project Maven’s origins, industry pullback and Pentagon politics. She explains how Maven evolved to aid Ukraine, sped targeting, and later supported CENTCOM in the Iran conflict, including the role of LLMs in accelerating targeting workflows.

Gregory C. Allen, senior adviser at Wadhwani AI Centers and AI policy expert, breaks down the new national AI framework and its policy priorities. He explores national security risks around frontier models and energy, and unpacks the Supermicro-Nvidia chip smuggling indictment alongside recent Nvidia chip sales to China. Short, sharp takes on regulation, supply chains, and technical capacity.

Gregory C. Allen, senior adviser at Wadhwani AI Centers and AI policy and national security expert, explains the Anthropic-Pentagon legal clash. He traces the lawsuits and why venue matters. He then shifts to how Claude and government models are being used in Iran, covering intelligence acceleration, targeting workflows, and risks to data-center infrastructure.

Owen Larter, Head of Frontier Policy and Public Affairs at Google DeepMind, helps shape AI standards and governance. He explains what standards are and how they enable interoperability and trust. He contrasts technical and process standards, outlines how formal standards are made, and explores ties to regulation, patents, geopolitics, and industry collaborations.

Matt Perault, head of AI policy at Andreessen Horowitz, former Meta and academic technopolicy leader. Jai Ramaswamy, Chief Legal and Policy Officer, ex-federal prosecutor and compliance executive. They discuss why venture capital moved into policy, state versus federal roles in AI regulation, risks around open source and national competitiveness, and practical state-level solutions for mental health and worker support.

Gregory C. Allen, senior adviser on AI policy and former Joint AI Center strategy director. He walks through the Anthropic–Pentagon standoff, why classified access and integration costs matter, the risks of punitive escalations like supply chain designations or the Defense Production Act, and broader fallout for defense, industry, and export-control strategy.

Live coverage from New Delhi highlights summit scale, logistics, and the whirlwind conference format. Discussion of major AI investments and big corporate partnerships. Accounts of CEO appearances and shifting AGI timelines. Conversations about national AI strategies, export programs, and calls for sovereignty and safe innovation.

Stephen Casper, an MIT Ph.D. student focused on technical safeguards for ML risk management, and Stephen Clare, lead writer of the Second International AI Safety Report and former research manager on frontier AI governance, discuss the report’s scope, jagged capability gains, misuse and systemic risks, the AI development lifecycle, data curation, fine-tuning defenses, post-deployment monitoring and policy priorities for evidence and resilience.

Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America and former U.S. Deputy CTO, champions modernizing government tech and policy. She traces Gov2.0 roots and the rise of U.S. Digital Service. Conversation covers upstream reform, how AI can help public servants question entrenched rules, using LLMs to audit and simplify regulations, HR and procurement fixes, and concrete AI use cases for government work.

Laurent Bili, French ambassador to the US, highlights France-India cooperation and Paris summit outcomes. Vinay Kwatra, Indian ambassador to the US, outlines India’s AI summit priorities and investment focus. They discuss summit structures, implementation over rhetoric, major tech investments, and India-EU trade ties. The conversation centers on practical collaboration and catalyzing AI infrastructure and adoption.