“Military AI Watch” A Project Censored Exposé with Peter Byrne

Coming From Left Field podcast published May 15, 2025

Warm Greetings All,

In this podcast, our guest is Peter Byrne, a national and international award-winning investigative reporter and science writer. His works have been published in Scientific American, Wired, Mother Jones, and New Scientist.

In partnership with Project Censored, Byrne has launched Military AI Watch, a groundbreaking ten-part series that will run monthly on the Project Censored website. This exposé reveals the manifold dangers of developing artificial intelligence applications for military purposes and how the public has been kept in the dark about these efforts, which present potentially disastrous consequences for the world, while promising a financial bonanza to wealthy investors.

Byrne has spent the last two years conducting in-depth research for this series and is at work on a database of selected AI weapons companies and their investors. This collaboration between Project Censored and Peter Byrne provides much-needed attention to an issue that has a profound public impact and has been under-reported for too long.

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This was an in-depth conversation with a leading expert on the topic of AI…. A very smart fellow with a great sense of humor. We only scratched the surface, and I look forward to reading the future episodes that will be published on the Project Censored website.

So far, the CliffsNotes summary is:

AI militarization is a profit-driven disaster—technologically flawed, environmentally catastrophic, and ethically bankrupt. The real threat isn’t "superintelligence," but human elites using the technology to entrench power while risking nuclear war and climate extinction.

Greg’s final thoughts were salient:

"We’re barbarians. We need to become civilized—or we’re done."

Peace,

Pat