The Convergence - An Army Mad Scientist Podcast
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The Convergence - An Army Mad Scientist Podcast
The Convergence is an Army Mad Scientist podcast with a distinct focus on divergent viewpoints, a challenging of assumptions, and insights from thought leaders and subject matter experts. The purpose of "The Convergence" is to explore technological, economic, and societal trends that disrupt the ope...
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115 episodi
117. From Campus to Command: The William & Mary Wargaming Lab with Luke Miller
[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist and the Georgetown University Wargaming Society co-hosted our Game On! Wargaming & The Operational Environment Con...
116. Do Androids Dream of Electric War: The Reality of Autonomous Weapons with Dr. Mark Bailey
“I think there’s a moral question that one has to ask in general about whether it’s appropriate for a machine to make a decision as to whether or not...
115. 15 Layers Deep: Supporting Soldiers with Geospatial Intelligence
[Editor’s Note: As observed in TRADOC Pamphlet 525-92, The Operational Environment 2024-2034: Large-Scale Combat Operations:
“LSCO will be mark...
114. Data to Dominance: AI & Gaming to Create Decision Advantage with Jon Pan
“Agentic warfare is here, whether we welcome it or not. The era of military planners manually gathering limited data and compiling static crisis respo...
113. Beyond Venture Capital: How the Government is Investing in Innovation
[Editor’s Note: Regular readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory understand the transformative potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificia...
112. Battle Tested: Revolutionizing Wargaming with AI featuring Dr. Billy Barry
Today’s The Convergence podcast welcomes back proclaimed Mad Scientist Dr. Billy Barry, Professor of Emerging Technology at the U.S. Army War College,...
111. Tactical Tech: How Smartphones are Countering Jamming in Ukraine with Dr. Sean Gorman
“The hope is that we can begin to profile what the capabilities of the jammer are that we’re seeing out in the field with enough measurements...
110. Generative AI: The New Ammunition in the Data Arms Race with Ben Van Roo
[Editor’s Note: Today’s The Convergence podcast welcomes back Ben Van Roo, recent author of our Unlocking TRADOC’s Potential with GenAI: Oppo...
109. Ghosts in the Battlespace: The UAP Threat with the James Gang
“We have craft that defy physics as we know it and are moving at speeds that are at least a hundred times faster than anything a human or robot… can p...
108. Soldier Dominance and Battlefield Primacy
Soldier Dominance and Battlefield Primacy
“What we’ve got to think about is, how do we make our Soldiers more effective, how do we maintain that...
107. Hybrid Intelligence: Sustaining Adversary Overmatch with Dr. Billy Barry, LTC Blair Wilcox, & TIM
[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist continues our series of blog posts and podcasts in the run up to our Game On! Wargaming & The Operational Environme...
106. Whipping Wargaming Into NATO SHAPE with COL Arnel David
[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist continues our series of blog posts and podcasts in the run up to our Game On! Wargaming & The Operational Environme...
105. Taking the Golf Out of Gaming with Sebastian Bae
[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist continues our series of blog posts and podcasts in the run up to our Game On! Wargaming & The Operational Environme...
104. Achieving Victory & Ensuring Civilian Safety in Conflict Zones with Andrew Olson
[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist first introduced Andrew Olson to our community of action with his insightful submission to our Calling All Wargamer...
103. On the Ground and In the Air in Ukraine with Wolfgang Hagarty
“I don’t think America, or the West in general, is prepared in any sort of way to fight a static war like we’re seeing over there in Ukraine.”
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102. War, Inc: The Private Sector in Contemporary Conflict with LTC Kristine Hinds
[Editor’s Note: The Mad Scientist Laboratory featured LTC Kristine M. Hinds‘ assessment of private sector involvement in future conflicts in “Sixth Do...
101. Precursor to Victory: Understanding the Operational Environment with Mr. Ian Sullivan
[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist is pleased to publish its 500th post! Since its inception on 09 November 2017, the Mad Scientist Laboratory has c...
100. The Dictator's Dream: A Conversation with COL John Antal (USA-Ret.)
[Editor’s Note: Last week’s Mad Scientist Laboratory blog post featured a timely “what if?” nightmare scenario by COL John Antal (USA-Ret.), set in a...
99. Blending: The Art of Hiding in Plain Sight with LtCol Erik Keim
[Editor’s Note: Last week’s Mad Scientist Laboratory post featured an assessment by U.S. Army War College student LtCol Erik Keim (USMC) that “milita...
98. The OSINT Odyssey: Unmasking Digital Clues with Mr. Shawn Nilius
[Editor’s Note: The TRADOC G-2 appreciates the value of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) in informing us about emergent trends across the Operational...
97. Threat #49: I Think There's Trouble Brewin' with Dr. James Giordano and Dr. James Canton
[Editor’s Note: Humanity is entering an era of hyper-innovation as the potential of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Neurocognitive Sci...
96. Calling All Wargamers and Mad Sci Update!
[Editor’s Note: Crowdsourcing remains an effective tool for harvesting ideas and concepts from a wide array of individuals, helping us to diversify th...
95. African Skies: Space Exploration and National Security Perspectives with Selina Hayes
“China sits in INDOPACOM, but the playground is Africa.”
[Editor’s Note: Regular readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory will recall that the O...
94. A surprise Interview With a Mystery Guest
This is a special off-schedule episode of The Convergence where we talk with a mystery guest, possibly for the last time!
93. Insights from the Israel-Hamas War with LTC Kenneth Hardy
[Editor’s Note: It has almost been a decade since U.S. forces and coalition partners assisted Iraqi government forces in dislodging ISIS fighters fro...
92. Know Your Enemy: Army Doctrine Starts with the Threat
[Editor’s Note: Grizzled readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory will recall their well-thumbed copies of the forty-year-old FM 100-2 series, The Sov...
91. Building Beyond: Preparing the Army for Lift-Off featuring Dr. Olga Bannova
[Editor’s Note: As longtime readers of the Army’s Mad Scientist Laboratory know, our adversaries are deploying capabilities to fight the U.S. Joint F...
90. NeuroNudge: The Science Behind Brain Manipulation with Dr. Guosong Hong
[Editor’s Note: Regular readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory are familiar with the potentially disruptive effects of cognitive and neurowarfare. A...
89. Live From D.C., it's Fight Night! (Part Two)
[Editor’s Note: Regular consumers of Army Mad Scientist content — via this blog site and The Convergence podcast — understand how wargaming can enhan...
88. Metamaterial Magic: Demystifying the Science of Cloaking with Dr. Andrea Alù
[Editor’s Note: As we reported earlier this month, “The Operational Environment is increasingly lethal with the ubiquity of sensors and proliferation...
87. Live from D.C., it's Fight Night! (Part One) with the Hon. Mac Thornberry
[Editor’s Note: Regular consumers of Army Mad Scientist content — via this blog site and The Convergence podcast — will understand how wargaming can...
86. Death From Above! The Evolution of sUAS Technology with COL (USA-Ret.) Bill Edwards
[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist continues to explore issues impacting the Operational Environment, especially those directly affecting U.S. Army o...
85. Do You Have What It Takes? Let's Check Your Brain! with Mr. Loran Ambs
[Editor’s Note: Army Mad Scientist has extensively explored how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) can be harnessed to enhance our...
84. The AI Study Buddy at the Army War College Part 2 with Dr. Billy Barry
[Editor’s Note: Regular readers of the Mad Scientist Laboratory and listeners to The Convergence podcast know that our Pacing Threat — China — is fev...
83. Shattering the Mirror: The Key to Understanding Adversarial Decision-Making with LTC Nathan Colvin
[Editor’s Note: Sunday morning’s tropical idyll was shattered as the adversary’s surprise attack caught our naval, ground, and air forces completely...
82. The AI Study Buddy at the Army War College with LtCol Joe Buffamante
[Editor’s Note: In recent weeks, Mad Scientist Laboratory has featured a number of podcasts and associated blog posts exploring the democratization of...
81. Where Creativity Meets Combat: Exploring the USC ICT with Dr. Keith Brawner and Dr. Bill Swartout
"We found that people systematically were more willing to reveal confidential or sensitive information to a virtual human than to a real person"
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80. You Can't Predict the Future: Finding Signals in the Noise with Grant Rafter, Air Force Futures
[Editor's Note: Crowdsourcing and Storytelling are two of Army Mad Scientist's most effective tools in exploring future possibilities regarding the O...
79. One brain chip, please! Neuro-AI with two of the Maddest Scientists! Dr. James Giordano and Dr. James Canton
[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist is an Army initiative and Community of Action that continually explores the Operational Environment and the changing ch...
78. Task Force Wolf with LTC Daniel Gomez
In today’s post and podcast, we feature the winning submission from our Back to the Future Writing Contest — Task Force Wolf — as a short audiobook an...