After 27 years inside the French Air Force working on the ethics of drone and autonomous weapons warfare, Dr. Emmanuel Goffi witnessed the shift from battlefield decision-making to remote killing, and now to a world where artificial intelligence may shape reality itself.

In this episode, he explains what lethal drone strikes actually look like behind the scenes, how responsibility quietly moves away from political leaders and onto operators, and how militaries carefully construct the narratives that make controversial technologies feel acceptable over time. We also explore Western dominance over AI ethics, the risks of exporting a single moral framework to the rest of the world, and how deepfakes and algorithmic media threaten public trust.

At one point, Goffi delivers his starkest warning: “Narrative being shaped by AI is a bigger threat than nuclear weapons.” The next conflict, he argues, may not be fought over territory, but over perception itself.

Guest bio: Dr. Emmanuel Goffi is a philosopher of artificial intelligence and a former French Air Force officer who spent 27 years working on the ethics of drone and autonomous weapons warfare. Now co-founder and co-director of the Global AI Ethics Institute in Paris, he studies how emerging technologies are reshaping responsibility, geopolitics, and truth itself. His work focuses on the ethical consequences of AI, and why the future of conflict may be decided as much by narrative as by weapons.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelgoffi/

Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Goffi

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emmanuel-Goffi

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#291 - “AI Is More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons” (From a 27-Year Air Force Insider)