Primes, Schedule P/C, and AI Sentiment

About this episode

Radha and Loren discuss various political topics including defense primes, schedule policy, and AI sentiment with guest Dr. Rebecca Lissner.

Radha and Loren are very excited about a range of important things, starting with Radha's purse, which is the same as the newly supermajoritied Japanese PM (yes, that's a word, we made it one). Also in the cocktail circuit we have DHS shutdown and a new administration intervention on defense primes. We welcome (ok not really) schedule policy / career (schedule F) back to Dumpster Fires with a deep explainer on what this new policy means for civil servants and the American people, and then explore Munich Security Conference: Rubio, AOC, the weird civilizational dialgoue and the tired tropes. Finally we are so jazzed to welcome Dr. Rebecca Lissner to discuss her research on American sentiment on AI and data centers. Also, you get our extremely non-expert Olympic commentary.

People in this episode

Hosts: Radha Iyengar Plumb, Loren DeJonge Schulman

Guest: Dr. Rebecca Lissner

Topics covered

• Japanese politics
• DHS shutdown
• defense primes
• schedule policy
• Munich Security Conference
• AI sentiment
• Olympic commentary

Keywords

• Japanese PM
• DHS
• defense
• schedule F
• Munich Security Conference
• AI
• sentiment
• Olympics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DHS, Munich Security Conference, American, schedule policy, schedule F

Places: Japan

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