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Ethan Thornton, founder and CEO of Mach Industries, joins the Shawn Ryan Show to discuss building next-generation unmanned defense systems after dropping out of MIT at 22 to pursue the company full time. In this wide-ranging conversation, Thornton dives into AI’s future and its economic implications, the risks of an AI arms race between the U.S. and China, the fragility of Taiwan’s semiconductor dominance, and how emerging technologies—from autonomous weapons to advanced computing—could reshape global power. The episode also explores deeper topics including the “Great Filter,” the search for extraterrestrial life, the purpose of human work in an AI-driven world, and why rebuilding Western innovation and defense capacity may be critical for the decades ahead.
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