Technology is vital in commerce and war. Corporations spend billions in development and don’t want to get ripped off. Technology and AI, more than ever, determine military superiority. What are the laws that protect technology and how are they enforced?

Show Notes

01:20 | Introduction; Daniel M. Ogden, J.D.03:06 | Two reasons for protected technology: 1) national security and 2) protecting the US industrial base04:00 | The United States Munitions List (USML) and preventing nuclear proliferation07:42 | What is an export license and how to get one?08:41 | Monitoring foreign travel of professors10:13 | Foreign nationals and deemed export licenses11:30 | U.S. technology research theft & the fundamental research exception16:29 | “The Tennessee professor went to jail”17:37 | Open source AI and export control20:17 | Encryption and cellphones21:52 | “Critical technologies” and BSI25:20 |Siege warfare, the invention of gunpowder, artillery, rifled guns, etcetera27:00 | Nuclear, Doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, SDI28:30 | Necessity as the mother of invention29:00 | WWII engineering technology and the Norden bombsight30:00 | Allied pilots eating carrots, cracking Enigma, and radar31:00 | Measure countermeasure32:00 | Releasing radar with victory over Japan32:45 | Slaughterbots and banning autonomous weapons33:30 | Some success in banning chemical weapons35:00 | Like fire, AI can be used for good or bad41:13 | Military AI endgame41:55 | Other implications of AI42:55 | Iran nuclear facility infection44:21 | stopkillerrobots.org43:17 | Encryption and cellphones

Resources

Daniel Ogden’s profile for the Global Business Forum at Baylor UniversityThe United States Munitions ListExport Control RegulationsDeemed ExportsThe Norden BombsightUnbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption