09 | Brian Bengs & Brianna Harter - How to Keep Humans in the Loop When Machines Decide

About this episode

When a machine can pick the target, who keeps the humanity in the decision? Bob sits down with Brian Bengs, a retired military lawyer and independent U.S. Senate candidate in South Dakota, and Brianna Harter of the National Data Center Policy Project. The thread is not politics. It is who asks the questions when data and AI start making the calls. They get into keeping a human in the loop on life-and-death military decisions, why one proposed data center could draw the power of 400,000 South Dakota homes, and what happens to local water, power bills, and voice when big money moves faster than the people it affects. A clear-eyed look at curiosity, governance, and the facts underneath the…