Palmer Luckey's 'I Told You So' Tour: AI Weapons and Vindication

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  Hey, what's news, listeners?

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  It's Sunday, March 16th.

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  I'm Alex Zosola for the Wall Street Journal.

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  This is what's News Sunday,

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  the show where we tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news by reaching out to our colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world.

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  This week, we're bringing you an episode of our sister podcast,

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  Bold Names featuring Palmer Luckey,

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  veteran entrepreneur and founder of weapons manufacturer Andrill.

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  During President Trump's first run for the White House,

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  Lucky was part of a minority in the tech sector that supported him.

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  Now he wielding his influence to remake the government's approach to national security.

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  On Bold Names,

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  hosts Tim Higgins and Christopher mims speak to CEOs and business leaders to take you inside the decisions being made in C Suite and beyond.

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  Tim is here with me now.

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  Tim, what makes Lucky such a unique voice in this moment?

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  He's one of the perhaps brightest examples of a new wave of entrepreneurs out there who in a lot of ways are abandoning what has made Silicon Valley so powerful,

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  whether it's personal gadgets or ad tech,

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  and pouring themselves into super hard and sometimes controversial science and engineering.

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  Lucky is working on weapons, AI, weapons, drones,

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  high tech operating systems, kind of the stuff of sci fi nightmares.

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