Endangerment, DOD AI, Iran

About this episode

Radha and Loren discuss various topics including the situation in Iran and security clearance challenges with guest Dana Stroul.

Radha and Loren are so excited to welcome special guest Dana Stroul to help us understand this war, er, special military operation in Iran, but first we wade through cocktail party gossip on the end of the endangerment finding, forced ranking for civil servants, and like a lot of things going on in the western hemisphere. If you've ever wanted to know about the systems challenges of security clearances, our discussion on NBIS and its woes are for you; plus, of course we couldn't avoid getting into the messiness of the DOD-Anthropic situationship. Plus: do you have an Irish soda bread recipe? We don't.

People in this episode

Hosts: Radha Iyengar Plumb, Loren DeJonge Schulman

Guest: Dana Stroul

Topics covered

• Iran conflict
• DOD AI
• security clearances
• endangerment finding
• civil service ranking
• Western hemisphere issues

Keywords

• Iran
• DOD
• AI
• security clearances
• endangerment finding
• civil servants
• Anthropic

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DOD, Anthropic, NBIS

Places: Iran

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