Saturday, March 7, 2026
Special Edition: AI in War – Who Sets the Rules?
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Artificial intelligence is now changing how wars are fought, and a recent dispute between the Pentagon and AI company Anthropic has raised new questions about who sets the rules.
Paul Scharre — former defense official and one of TIME’s most influential people in AI — explains how AI is transforming warfare, why human control matters, and how this technology could shift global power in the years ahead.
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Guest: Paul Scharre
Paul Scharre is the executive vice president at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He is the award-winning author of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War, won the 2019 Colby Award, was named one of Bill Gates’s top five books of 2018, and was named by The Economist as one of the top five books to understand modern warfare. TIME magazine named him in 2023 as one of the “100 most influential people in AI.”
Scharre previously worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) where he played a leading role in establishing policies on unmanned and autonomous systems and emerging weapons technologies. He led the Department of Defense (DoD) working group that drafted DoD Directive 3000.09, establishing the department’s policies on autonomy in weapon systems. He also led DoD efforts to establish policies on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance programs and directed energy technologies. Scharre was involved in the drafting of policy guidance in the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance, 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, and secretary-level planning guidance.
Scharre has published articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN_, TIME, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Politico,_ and USA Today, and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, and the BBC. He has testified before the House and Senate Armed Services Committees and has presented at the United Nations, NATO, the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other national security venues. He holds a PhD in war studies from King’s College London and an MA in political economy and public policy and a BS in physics from Washington University in St. Louis.
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