Challenging the climate change narrative with Bjorn Lomborg

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Winners and losers of the Iran war, with Kori Schake

Operation Epic Fury may be over, but the Iran war is far from resolved. On this week's episode, American Enterprise Institute Kori Schake joins Ian Bremmer to discuss the conflict's global ripple effects. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed to commercial shipping, the US ...  Show more

How AI is transforming warfare and the US military with Katrina Manson

Ian Bremmer's guest this week is author and Bloomberg defense tech reporter Katrina Manson, who spent years reporting on Project Maven for her new book on the Pentagon's AI push. The program launched in 2017 with a narrow mandate: use machine learning to process drone footage. It ...  Show more

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