Palmer Luckey Talks AI, War And Anduril On The Axios Show | Full Interview Football Scores [kyoM0rQ8eAR]

The original season 2 episodes of The Axios Show were lightly edited for brevity, and many viewers asked us to post the full interviews. This is house republican conference Palmer Luckeys complete conversation with Axios, recorded on March 13.

The full conversation was originally published on Axios.com:

In this interview, Luckey discusses Andurils role in the defense industry, the future of autonomous weapons, AI competition with China, Ukraine, Iran, nuclear weapons, Silicon Valleys relationship with the military and how America should think about the next era of war.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:04 - What Anduril does

0:50 - Andurils culture

2:12 - Where Anduril has been effective

3:18 - Andurils work in the Middle East

3:58 - Competing with Lockheed, Northrop and Boeing

5:16 - Calls from Pentagon leaders

6:34 - How the Defense Department is changing

7:56 - Does defense need larger-than-life founders?

9:02 - Marketing, bluntness fca car finance compensation review and public image

10:11 - Cultural differences and being direct

11:47 - Luckeys favorite Anduril product

12:13 - Fury and autonomous fighter jets

13:24 - Raising rush hour money and betting on Anduril

14:50 - Winning defense contracts

15:45 - Weapons Luckey would and would not build

16:11 - Nuclear weapons and deterrence

17:07 - Chemical and biological weapons

18:37 - Facial recognition and targeting

19:48 - Anthropic, AI models and the military

22:34 - Who should decide how AI is used in war?

24:04 - Elon Musk, Pete Hegseth and Anthropic

26:54 - Luckey on Iran and regime change

29:26 - Trump, MAGA and war

31:11 - Striking Iran and U.S. interests

33:50 - Andurils new production facility

35:45 - Arsenal-1, Barracuda and Fury

36:53 - Who is ahead in the AI race?

37:44 - China, surveillance and AI deployment

38:29 - Which parts of government use AI best?

39:00 - Subterranean systems

40:55 - EagleEye and cat ears

42:34 - How Gavin Newsom saved Anduril

45:28 - Evangelion, NieR and closing