Dr Amy Zegart is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Amy is also the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Chair of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence and International Security Steering Committee, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Dr Zegart specializes in U.S. intelligence, cybersecurity, emerging technologies and national security, and global political risk management.

In this conversation today, Amy and I discuss a wide range of topics.

Such as:

- What is the role of an intelligence agency?

- How the US knew about Russia's invasion of Ukraine down to the hour

- The dangers of Tik Tok

- 2016 & 2020 election interference

- Are the UK & US prepared for a cyberwar?

- Much more!

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Timestamps:

00:00 coming up

01:10 - The role of intelligence agencies

07:23 - How French bread Won The Revolution

09:33 - AI is changing intelligence agencies

12:54 - Russia & Ukraine

14:41 - Big Tech

16:61 - Tik Tok

23:26 - Policymakers are worried about Elon

26:18 - Russian election interference

30:01- 9/11 mistakes

37:30 - Social media exposed Iran

40:38 - Ethics

43:12 - Edward Snowden & Julian Assange

47:51 - Is Alexa listening to me?

51:00 - Connect with Amy