Does AI mean the end of wars?

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In this episode, recorded at the 2025 Abundance Summit, Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, discusses building cutting-edge defense tech, taking over the IVAS contract, and his journey from Oculus to Anduril.

Recorded on March 12th, 2025
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Palmer Luckey is an American entrepreneur renowned for founding Oculus VR and designing the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that significantly influenced the VR industry. In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus VR for $2 billion. Following his departure from Facebook in 2017, Luckey established Anduril Industries, a defense technology company specializing in autonomous systems and artificial intelligence for military applications. As of 2025, Anduril has secured substantial contracts, including a $250 million deal with the Pentagon, reflecting its growing impact in the defense sector.

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Here are several pivotal quotes from the clip, with timestamps so you can jump to them easily:

“I think that there will be a time without war, and then that time will come to an end.”
“We've been fighting for way too long for me to sit on this stage and say, ‘Yeah, I think we're just going to get over that.’”
“The longer you spend away from [war], the less that people believe it's possible and the less you do to prevent it.”
“Every time [globalized financial elites] come to this conclusion where they say, ‘We’re the most important people in the world, and so sternly worded letters from us and entanglement between our companies economically mean that large-scale conflict is impossible.’”
“I refuse to be the guy who's quoted like that 100 years from now where they said, ‘And here's this idiot Palmer who said, I believe that someday war will be over.’”
“Wars start when one or both sides disagree as to the outcome… When the outcome is relatively known, wars don't start.”
“If you have a few powers in the world that are relatively at stalemate with each other, and your interests don't diverge too much, you can get away with no war for a long time.”
“[But] who's to say that someone's not going to come up with an asymmetrical advantage—a programmable virus that wipes out all his enemies—and he decides that he's going to launch an asymmetrical war?”
“War can come in a lot of forms… it would be very hard for me to imagine that never again will there come a group that is willing to die, lose, and consider that victory in pursuit of their extremist goals.”
“How do you deter someone like that who's like, ‘Oh, I'm going to lose so hard, I'm going to die and go to heaven so good’? How do you deter that? It's very difficult.”