Everybody’s Robot Fighting

About this episode

Brett interviews bestselling author Igor Pejic about the impact of AI and technology investment on the defense industry.

In this week’s Futurists episode Brett interviews bestselling author Igor Pejic on how AI and technology investment is changing valuations of defense industry players. Pejic is the author of Tech Money: A guide to the new game of technology investing. In this wide ranging conversation, Brett and Igor debate the implications of wars fought largely by AI and how tech-first defense players like Palantir, Anduril and others are changing the sector from an investment perspective.

People in this episode

Hosts: Brett King, JP Nicols, Jason Henrichs

Guest: Igor Pejic

Topics covered

• AI
• defense industry
• technology investment
• valuation
• war
• investment perspective

Keywords

• AI
• defense
• investment
• technology
• valuation
• Palantir
• Anduril
• Igor Pejic

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Palantir, Anduril

Books & works: Tech Money: A guide to the new game of technology investing

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