David Friedberg: The AI Wars Are Already Here, and America Can’t Hit Pause “We always assumed in the sci-fi novels that we would be in an era of having robot wars, and I think we failed to recognize that the software came first, and we are actually having the AI wars. I think we will see a massive rise in defense systems. What I heard in DC this week was some Fortune 50 CEOs are very worried about cyber defense. That means they're going to start to make this their #1# priority to address at the board level. That means the budgets for cyber defense are going to go through the roof. Now, let me ask you a question. When you have to do cyber defense in an era of AI, are you going to use old school software, or are you going to use AI? You're going to use AI. And because of that, because cyber defense is going to need to grow, the US is going to need to provide competitive AI for cyber defense. It is a classic arms race scenario. And so the US cannot simply step back and pause and turn off AI. It is already everywhere in the world. Therefore, the risks are rising. Therefore, we need to increase our investment in AI to maintain our cyber defense capabilities, both at the enterprise level and at the government level, and potentially even at the civilian consumer level. So I think that the cyber defense necessity actually mandates that we continue to build out data centers to support it.”