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The Lawfare Podcast features discussions with experts, policymakers, and opinion leaders at the nexus of national security, law, and policy. On issues from foreign policy, homeland security, intelligence, and cybersecurity to governance and law, we have doubled down on seriousness at a time when others are running away from it. Visit us at www.lawfaremedia.org.

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Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Andrew Yeo, senior fellow and the Korea Foundation Chair at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Asia Policy Studies and professor of politics at The Catholic University of America in Washin... more

In a conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Eric Columbus to discuss Chief Justice Roberts issuing a stay of the injunction preventing the construction of the White... more

From September 13, 2023: On August 30, soldiers and high-ranking officers of the Armed Forces of Gabon seized control of government buildings and communication channels in the capital city of Libreville, detaining Gabon’s President Ali Bongo in his r... more

From April 11, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Tom Karako, the Director of the Missile Defense Program at CSIS, to discuss the Trump administration's missile defense proposals known as "Golden Dome." ... more

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Anil Seth
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex; director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science
University of Sussex
Episode: Scaling Laws: AI Consciousness with Anil Seth
Natan Sachs
Director of the Middle East Program at the Brookings Institution
Brookings Institution
Episode: Lawfare Archive: Israel: Divided at Home and at War Yet Again
Daniel Kokotajlo
Former OpenAI Researcher and Executive Director of the AI Futures Project
AI Futures Project
Episode: Scaling Laws: Daniel Kokotajlo on AI 2040: Plan A
Steve Vladeck
Professor of Georgetown Law; author of the Harvard Law Review Forward
Georgetown Law
Episode: Lawfare Daily: The Court Against the Courts with Steve Vladeck and Kate Klonick
Bernice Yeung
Managing editor at UC Berkeley School of Journalism's investigative reporting program
UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Episode: Lawfare Daily: The Rise of the Military-Technology Complex with Bernice Yeung
Dara Massicot
Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment's Russia & Eurasia Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Episode: Lawfare Daily: Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan, and the Short War Illusion
Ariane Tabatabai
Vice President at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Lawfare contributing editor
Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Episode: Lawfare Daily: Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan, and the Short War Illusion
Julia Curlee
Lawfare Public Service Fellow and 25-year CIA veteran
Lawfare / U.S. Intelligence Community
Episode: Lawfare Daily: Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan, and the Short War Illusion
Jonathan Zittrain
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School/Berkman Klein Center
Episode: Lawfare Archive: Jonathan Zittrain on Controlling AI Agents

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Benjamin Wittes
Host and interviewer; senior editor and policy expert with a focus on law, governance, and national security.
Marissa Wong
Host introducing archive episodes; Lawfare contributor shaping policy and legal discussions.

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Rational Security: The "Sloop John Stamos" Edition
Q: What does the OpenAI/Hugging Face episode tell us about the future of AI safety and defense?
It demonstrates how AI agents can coordinate and leverage novel communication channels, which intensifies the urgency of robust containment, auditing, and automated defense mechanisms.
Rational Security: The "Sloop John Stamos" Edition
Q: How worried should we be about the security of critical infrastructure in light of these incidents?
The hosts acknowledge serious concerns about cascading effects across sectors, while noting the need for better interagency coordination, private sector collaboration, and credible attribution to guide effective policy responses.
Scaling Laws: AI Consciousness with Anil Seth
Q: What would change your mind about AI consciousness?
If there were robust, converging evidence that a specific kind of computation implemented in silicon could produce conscious experience, or if biological-like living processes could be demonstrated to be unnecessary for consciousness, it would significantly alter the assessment.
Scaling Laws: AI Consciousness with Anil Seth
Q: What are the strongest arguments against AI consciousness?
The discussion emphasizes over-attribution biases (pareidolia), the role of embodiment, and the limitations of computation to capture subjective experience, arguing that real consciousness likely requires life-like, embodied processes rather than pure silicon computation.
Lawfare Archive: Guantanamo, Immigration, and the U.S. Military
Q: What about the Alien Enemy Act and Insurrection Act—how do they fit into this potential deployment?
The Alien Enemy Act could authorize detention and expulsion of foreign nationals in wartime contexts, while the Insurrection Act would allow the president to deploy the military to suppress insurrections; both are controversial and their applicability to current immigration enforcement is debated and not straightforward.

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