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@edison1
April 25, 2025 at 8:22 pm
using china as an example when usa is committing and aiding in genocide? INSANE
@jatis2010
April 25, 2025 at 8:27 pm
Canada and Greenland need this technology
@moletrap2640
April 25, 2025 at 8:27 pm
Describes exactly the vision that China has already had and is well ahead of us on. Even if we execute beyond what’s suggested here, which we definitely will not, China will be far ahead with the same strategy and significantly greater innovation and delivery capability. The game is already over we just don’t know it yet. Who would you bet on for drones? Who would you bet on for silicon Fab? Who would you bet on for ship building? We are kidding ourselves if we think we are so technologically ahead of China. Remember Deepseek.
@rheymanda1074
April 25, 2025 at 8:32 pm
Tech bro billionaire with ties to the alt-right and Peter Thiel dresses up like an incel boogaloo boie to do a TED talk about how we need to massively invest in killer robots.
TED has officially become the swamp 4chan used to be
@juliannajulespinheiromachado
April 25, 2025 at 8:33 pm
Bla bla bla yankee propaganda
@MichaelBarry-gz9xl
April 25, 2025 at 8:49 pm
I don’t trust a word that comes out of his mouth.
@Memphisrich-chasn
April 25, 2025 at 8:51 pm
The side with the highest technology wins. It’s always been that way.
@w33dwizard5
April 25, 2025 at 8:53 pm
Yeah, nah…Lets not
@WeIsUnknown
April 25, 2025 at 8:53 pm
thats a whole lotta horse shi
@WeIsUnknown
April 25, 2025 at 8:53 pm
how can you say nothing by saying something
@elegantcourtier
April 25, 2025 at 8:55 pm
When the bogeyman conjures scenarios to market military technology.
@lamainethelatebloomer-qj9rx
April 25, 2025 at 8:55 pm
Mfs hating, bro is 32 years old. At least he’s making an attempt to make a difference. We could stand to care about our country enough to make sure we don’t acquiesce to worse than we understand.
@DJ_QUANT
April 25, 2025 at 8:55 pm
No doubt, everything this guy said is factual and coming whether we like it or not
@z0rch
April 25, 2025 at 9:01 pm
After we build skynet, we can sell stuff to the humans defending against skynet.
@BCHygro
April 25, 2025 at 9:13 pm
Clearly Palmer hasn’t been watching Trump news. Autocracy is exactly the direction the US is heading.
@leomyers2016
April 25, 2025 at 9:16 pm
Our Allies… oops, we don’t have any of those any more! A military that can make rapid and timely decisions … oops we don’t have that either! manufacturing to scale. maybe after we make clothes, toys, and phones … and of course cryto mines!
@samustheshollie6300
April 25, 2025 at 9:18 pm
NOT SMART TO DO. The aIs will say how ridiculous and throw us in the field with sticks and stones.
@BusinessTacticsDaily
April 25, 2025 at 9:18 pm
Many fear military AI, but the truth is: strength prevents war, not wishful thinking. 👏 Palmer Luckey is defending peace, not promoting violence. Refusing to develop defense AI is what’s truly irresponsible! What do you think?
@alexsandralouise9236
April 25, 2025 at 9:21 pm
Ummm bit late, China already producing all the robots and advancing exponentially with AI
World needs to hope that China prefers trade over conquest…. And they have not been the warmongers that the US has been since WWII
@TravisCotter
April 25, 2025 at 9:23 pm
These problems require an enormous amount of thought before each step or action occurs. You got to know why you are using advanced AI before you know when and where they will be used. Mr. X
@cgmanalojr
April 25, 2025 at 9:23 pm
I like this guy…another iron man in the making.
@Satronaut-pw3ij
April 25, 2025 at 9:24 pm
Is America still a democracy lol?
@protickkhandkar
April 25, 2025 at 9:24 pm
Even ted talk started propaganda! With such killer.
@stevemount
April 25, 2025 at 9:28 pm
Damn I wonder what Palmer was up to all these years after Oculus. Literally turned into Tony Stark 😮
@TyConnors
April 25, 2025 at 9:29 pm
I thought US military would have satellite laser strikes by now to stop this kind of thing
@courcheval
April 26, 2025 at 3:29 pm
All that so called advanced tech didnt prevent the US from losing their proxy war on Russia in Ukraine. Simply because it s not warfare but motivation that counts to win a war. Same in Afghanistan, all the killing drones didnt prevent the american humiliation. What about trying the confucean winwin philosophy rather than the lose lose american one?
@drunkenpigtnt1359
April 26, 2025 at 3:38 pm
Can the ai Arsenal win a trophy?
@Drrolfski
April 26, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Behold, the Skynet guy from Cyberdyne.
@mooushdoom
April 26, 2025 at 3:49 pm
war TED!
Drying up?
@mccleod6235
April 26, 2025 at 4:15 pm
I do not approve of that facial hair.
@nadasobhi3580
April 26, 2025 at 4:15 pm
Simply he comes today to enhance killing ppl by saying that china starts first. I wanna tell you that US is the cause of every war in the recent history. So shutup and stop killing more ppl🤬🤬
@Mxyzptlk30
April 26, 2025 at 4:23 pm
Don’t forget China is also spearheading AI technology, too! For them, it is a government mandate. They’ve got Bytedance’s TikTok that US tech companies are desperate to buy, more software engineers/PhDs with AI skills than we do, they’ve put out more AI-related papers and shared more groundbreaking AI models onto huggingface than we have, they use and improve AI for mass surveillance that would never happen here because of privacy concerns, we trained them to be the world’s mass manufacturing expert (doh!) at low costs (think tech gadgets, drones, weapons, ships, cars, resources, etc) and there’s no doubt the AI skills they’re using for their own manufacturing/shipping logistics are being used to enhance military logistics, command & control and AI-controlled weaponry with it. The best we can do is block some AI chips and exert some political pressure on Taiwan (TSMC) and the Netherlands (ASML) to slow their progress, but obviously, that’s not working as well as we thought (DeepSeek anyone?). There’s one Anduril here, but likely a couple of them in China doing the same thing. They’re extremely resilient and eager, while we’ve become complacent. We need to do better.
@vvilliam29
April 26, 2025 at 4:36 pm
he’s describing skynet, and people clap
@alderstrom3468
April 26, 2025 at 4:57 pm
Sounds like Sky NET
@politicalofficer832
April 26, 2025 at 5:25 pm
This is truly when Nerds go Sith Lord
@D.Enniss
April 26, 2025 at 5:31 pm
JOKE IS ON YOU PALMER!!! We have Trump now… The call is coming from inside the house….
@jasonbethune36
April 26, 2025 at 5:40 pm
USA is an autocracy and a dictatorship right now , so why should the rest of us in the world care about the USA ? Donald Trump has swore he will not uphold the USA commitment to nato . So how about the rest of us will just worry about this and negotiate ( because we don’t have toddlers in charge) after we let the USA get spanked for the first time ever ( Donald need to be put in his place!) . Let me be clear we do not want this at all but Trump has all but guaranteed this will occur by being the horrible leader he is attacking allies and being rude to the world. No one wants to back a bully …. SORRY!
@jasonbethune36
April 26, 2025 at 5:40 pm
USA will never be the leader in AI with Donald in charge. Ps USA is an authoritarian regime dude!
@jaysonp9426
April 26, 2025 at 5:49 pm
Yeah a spike trap is the same thing as autonomous terminators… I’ll give him props on setting a record for the number of straw man arguments per second though
@emuny9632
April 26, 2025 at 5:51 pm
This young tech-savvy nerd is the new face of the War machine to convince the youth that War is necessary and the tech is coool😎
@IMakeAcapellas-tz5dr
April 26, 2025 at 6:15 pm
Before you guys start bad talking china stop supplying weapons to israel
@joeyx60629
April 26, 2025 at 7:09 pm
“All we have to do is stand with our allies across the world….”
Welp. There goes this plan. This current administration is literally alienating us from the rest of the world.
@box4soumendu4ever
April 26, 2025 at 7:17 pm
….such a madly idea 😂…
@PaulyBSuchy
April 26, 2025 at 7:30 pm
IF YOURE IN THE ‘WRONG SIDE’ THIS TALK IS A DEATH SENTENCE
@michelegiovanardi2998
April 26, 2025 at 7:58 pm
This is ridiculous. Saying that having better weapons will prevent World War III through deterrence, without 1) taking into account that this would likely trigger a similar response and arms race on the other side, potentially making war more likely, and 2) by default assuming that the U.S. is the “good” player and others are “evil,” so that no one should see U.S. military buildup as a threat but rather as the guarantor of world peace — thus confusing U.S. defense with world peace — is just ridiculous and scary. The fact that people were applauding at the end makes it even worse. It’s also frightening to see the interviewer laughing at the sentence “I love killer robots.” It’s a disgrace that TED is hosting something like that.
@TyEMW1014
April 26, 2025 at 8:08 pm
He is a fraud.
@thomasr22272
April 26, 2025 at 8:39 pm
Terminator movie for free on Youtube, nice!
@MECKENICALROBOT
April 26, 2025 at 8:45 pm
9:12 let me stop you there Palmer… you know that party you donated to, they’re currently making the allies you speak of, feel betrayed today… by US. so i’m not sure they’ll be using any us made products… since that party pulled out usaid.
just because you make tech advances to strongarm defense, people aren’t intimidated by that, just ask any hacker, we’re challenged by that. that why the genius of soft power, was equivalent to peaceful protest w/ self defense
@johannesdolch
April 26, 2025 at 8:53 pm
Does he have a teleprompter in those glasses?
@Gallego3478
April 27, 2025 at 6:42 pm
More organizations should have Palmer talk
@AmigoAmigo-w5p
April 27, 2025 at 6:49 pm
China would not be the one to attack. Never will. They would rather build their own TSMC instead of war
@Skidderoperator
April 27, 2025 at 7:05 pm
DUDES REALLY ENCOURAGING CHINA.
@allthecraze2
April 27, 2025 at 7:07 pm
This guy makes money from wars and war preparation, he makes drones. Don’t listen to him. All he cares about is the money. “WHEN China invades Taiwan, we’ll need to be ready, because we aren’t right now. And that’s where I come in with my drones!”
@Bmeri3
April 27, 2025 at 7:11 pm
China is not going to shoot at their best customers. It’s fine to have a strong defense system, but we don’t need keep to more and more and more. On those points of being effective and selective, I would agree.
@josephbrown3476
April 27, 2025 at 7:31 pm
The US could of stop Putin with no problem. America choose not to.
@josephbrown3476
April 27, 2025 at 7:34 pm
Our only ally is Russia now
@micah6635
April 27, 2025 at 7:42 pm
“There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
@richardm4825
April 27, 2025 at 7:54 pm
Tech bro selling death and destruction.
@Pluto-i4t
April 27, 2025 at 7:56 pm
🇺🇸
@The_Savage_Wombat
April 27, 2025 at 8:12 pm
Fired from Facebook for donating to Trump?
I’m getting strong Sam Bankman-Fried and Sam Altman vibes from this guy.
@patrickoriley1411
April 27, 2025 at 8:15 pm
Wow I didn’t know Ted x was resulting to fear-mongering for views….
@bostonquad2068
April 27, 2025 at 8:17 pm
China create a magnetosphere 800.000 times stronger than Earth’s. Crazy
@patrickoriley1411
April 27, 2025 at 8:18 pm
Another guy trying to sell you something…. That you don’t need…. Buy selling fear… That shouldn’t exist…. Unless it’s beneficial to him…
@VioletPrism
April 27, 2025 at 8:19 pm
Palmer slowly turning into a gabe newell final form
@mikestanmore2614
April 27, 2025 at 8:30 pm
So, an even more powerful US military will ensure peace…
Didn’t work in Korea, didn’t work in Vietnam, didn’t work in Afghanistan.
If the US can go to war without body bags coming home, it’ll do it in an instant.
@DevinBostick
April 27, 2025 at 8:31 pm
As my old professor Christopher Coker used to say, “Perfect bank robbery is one where they don’t know they were robbed.”
@sadboidex6106
April 27, 2025 at 8:41 pm
you misspelled “start”
@ismailnyeyusof3520
April 27, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Is Palmer Luckey too good to be true? Are the advanced weapons that he speaks about real and not just vapourware? He’s been around for some years now and apparently he’s got US government contracts to make the weapons and systems that make them lethal so it must be real but are they? Of course there’s one of his weapons on the stage behind him and it’s just possible that his weapons are among the reasons why Ukraine is still able to fight back against a much bigger Russian military so there’s a chance he is a real life Tony Stark. In any case, I think his greatest value is his unconventional appearance, very menacing wit with words and well established reputation as the original inventor of the Occulus which, with his frequent appearances in presenting his company products act as a deterrent for China’s ambition!
@AKDisobey
April 27, 2025 at 8:52 pm
Lettuce… Sound so disarming, so innocent. I like Skynet better😂
@Winters11
April 27, 2025 at 8:53 pm
Did I just watch an add?
@IdanZ-x6y
April 27, 2025 at 9:03 pm
We do need to increase our manufacturing ability FAST : peace through strength.
The legacy defense contractors build good stuff but way way way overcharge us to a degree that a part that cost $20 – they charge us $20,000-$80,000 for it so we need privet defense companies like this one
@Chris.groucott
April 27, 2025 at 9:13 pm
I’ll take the same speech, the same guy, the same clothes, but with NO GLASSES !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@eerohughes
April 27, 2025 at 9:27 pm
He is 1000% correct
@abramlecerf8419
April 27, 2025 at 9:28 pm
What an outstanding, brilliant, strong and visionary young man. Experiencing his presentation gives me tremendous hope for a peaceful, prosperous and stable future.
@jackf3619
April 28, 2025 at 7:55 pm
I fucking love this guy
@madwolfadvertising107
April 28, 2025 at 7:57 pm
Great work, give ideas to China! 🤣
@youngpaulione
April 28, 2025 at 8:02 pm
Minute 3:01, what kind glasses is he wearing 👀
@X862go
April 28, 2025 at 8:18 pm
How about no war 😮
@scaledatacom
April 28, 2025 at 8:20 pm
2 words for that first scenario: Fact Check.
Not really accurate. At all
@isaak8018
April 28, 2025 at 8:23 pm
You know there’s a very interesting book called “Merchants of Death” that explains why there’s reasons to be critical about this line of thinking.
@toddsaalman791
April 28, 2025 at 8:24 pm
Ssme old, same old: make better war, not better peace.
@SHIiSHi-q6i
April 28, 2025 at 8:34 pm
U can build a kind of robot dog which can be control by humans and with a gun on it, it’s kind of human IT with the robot( even put a little sonar on the robot)
@ahmedabdulgawad4758
April 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
what a freakin hippe
@murc111
April 28, 2025 at 8:52 pm
Are his AR glasses built by Anduril? if not, who?
@TheBroaderScope
April 28, 2025 at 8:59 pm
“I love killer robots,” coming from a nerd, is pretty alarming, if not anything else.
@elliottmiller3282
April 28, 2025 at 9:02 pm
Love these guys
@yanshein4042
April 28, 2025 at 9:02 pm
He reminds me of SBF in terms of the attire. But he has real credibility and ingenuity.
@adityadas1590
April 28, 2025 at 9:10 pm
Is this a sales pitch or a ted talk
@MichaelSchultzSF
April 28, 2025 at 9:10 pm
Stop boosting this warlord Ted. I thought you were better than that. He literally builds weapons to intimidate and murder people.
@terentij5002
April 28, 2025 at 9:12 pm
AI autonomous warriors, Terminators, who will act for themselves even after the original mission is completed
@benhur5679
April 28, 2025 at 9:16 pm
This is a mercenary tech company. He said it best : ” Build to make billions”. Then what do we do with the weapons technology after the “enemy” is defeated ? Find new internal enemies? Your family is next. Don’t think it’s not. Freedoms get eroded, and respect gets controlled.
@dyb-5785
April 28, 2025 at 9:18 pm
IYH Anduril Industries CEO’s Taiwan invasion main points were presaged by RAND 2008 “Air Combat Past, Present and Future” a quantitative CCP PLA – RoC Taiwan war scenario 2020.
[To Palmer’s point “The United States exhausts its “shallow arsenal” of precision munitions in a mere eight days”]
RAND 2008 noted that attrition wins ie “The Number’s Game”: Sheer overwhelming resources wins PLA the hot war against Taiwan in 2-3 weeks, *despite PLA losing every air battle w ROCAF and US weapons.*
More recently the 2023 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) wargamed a Chinese amphibious invasion of Taiwan, incorporating players from the US, China, Taiwan, and Japan.
The CSIS exercise was conducted 24 times varying key assumptions about political decisions, military capabilities, and rules of engagement, yielding sobering results for the US and its allies.
Among the most striking findings was the significant loss of ships, aircraft,
and personnel, even in scenarios where the invasion was ultimately repelled. The wargame highlighted the vulnerability of surface vessels to missile
attacks, particularly from Chinese anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs) and
long-range anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs).
Back to 2025: The feared Taiwan invasion scenario, as described by Palmer, quickly devolves into a contest where the United States faces a critical lack of capacity and a “sheer shortage of tools and platforms”. In this scenario, American warships, being too few and too slow, sink under anti-ship missile swarms. The US fighter jets, while piloted by brave individuals, are shot down, and the “shallow arsenal” of precision munitions is exhausted in just eight days. China, conversely, possesses the world’s largest navy, ground force, missile arsenal, and significant shipbuilding capacity, far exceeding the US’s ability to meet this numerical advantage through traditional means.
Deploying AI-driven, autonomous systems at scale can provide a fundamentally different capability. By using fleets of autonomous drones, unmanned submarines, drone warships, and AI-piloted fighter swarms, and robotic sentries and AI-assisted fires on the ground, the goal is to demonstrate sufficient capacity to win, thereby deterring aggression. This approach aims to overcome the numerical disadvantage and avoid a costly war of attrition by leveraging technology for speed, scale, and adaptability, rather than relying on sheer numbers of expensive, slow-to-produce manned systems.
See the future eg Anduril UUV Copperhead’
@terentij5002
April 28, 2025 at 9:18 pm
Arm race about creating Terminators. this is just the very point where to fear of AI.
AI can be very beneficial for Mankin, but not when in hands of military
@terentij5002
April 28, 2025 at 9:23 pm
Superior beings in the service of mean greedy people.
What the outcome can be?
@kunk9533
April 28, 2025 at 9:25 pm
the distinction to the Pandora’s box question is that all of his examples of things we do today were defensive. You build these things to be offensive, and the enemy gets ahold of them and they are used against us… That’s a real fking problem.
@nubletten
April 28, 2025 at 9:25 pm
IF China aggress, its only because Donald Trunk allow Chayna to do so because they think Taiwan is worthless due to the new chip factories.
@kunk9533
April 28, 2025 at 9:26 pm
We’re all such idiots.
@terentij5002
April 28, 2025 at 9:30 pm
An army of autonomous AI warriors, superior to humans in every way, including intelligence, speed, and endurance. This is precisely the scenario in which humanity should fear AI, namely, AI in the hands of blinded, greedy people who essentially are going to make more powerful intelligent extensions of their most mean drives
@8vI
April 28, 2025 at 9:31 pm
Start or stop?