{"id":106516,"date":"2020-05-04T11:11:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/i-could-solve-most-of-your-problems-eric-schmidts-pentagon-offensive"},"modified":"2020-05-04T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:11:18","slug":"i-could-solve-most-of-your-problems-eric-schmidts-pentagon-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/i-could-solve-most-of-your-problems-eric-schmidts-pentagon-offensive","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Could Solve Most of Your Problems\u2019: Eric Schmidt\u2019s Pentagon Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-could-solve-most-of-your-problems-eric-schmidts-pentagon-offensive3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Schmidt is pressing forward with a Silicon Valley worldview where advances in software and A.I. are the keys to figuring out almost any issue. While that philosophy has led to social networks that spread disinformation and other unintended consequences, Mr. Schmidt said he was convinced that applying new and relatively untested technology to complex situations \u2014 including deadly ones \u2014 would make service members more efficient and bolster the United States in its competition with China.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The former Google C.E.O. has reinvented himself as the prime liaison between Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military has been \u201cstuck in software in the 1980s,\u201d said Eric Schmidt, Google\u2019s former chief executive. Credit\u2026 Winni Wintermeyer\/Redux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Schmidt is pressing forward with a Silicon Valley worldview where advances in software and A.I. are the keys to figuring out almost any issue. While that philosophy has led to social networks that spread disinformation and other unintended consequences, Mr. Schmidt said he was convinced that applying new and relatively untested technology to complex [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}