Kicking off the 2024 AI Expo in Washington, D.C. to a captive, standing-room only crowd, the Washington AI Network’s Tammy Haddad hosted the Washington Post columnist and best-selling author David Ignatius. As the first guest of the Special Competitive Studies Project’s AI Expo for National Competitiveness, Haddad began the conversation by asking Ignatius to analyze the potential hostage deal in Gaza. David warns that conflict in the Middle East often leads to “neither victory nor vanquished” but that this time it’s different. “All Israelis want to vanquish Hamas from running Gaza and won’t settle for anything less.”
Ignatius discussed the challenges FBI Director Chris Wray is facing with the emergence of ISIS-K. He quoted Wray about his concerns from “unknown unknowns” as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used to say.
Ignatius’s latest novel, Phantom Orbit, is a spy thriller set against the backdrop of the new space weapons race, part of which is playing out in Ukraine today. The novel explores the rising tensions between the US, China, and Russia in the context of space exploration.
Guests were among the 13,000 attendees at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center as companies like Palantir, Google, Microsoft and U.S. Government agencies like DARPA and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Guests were given a copy of Ignatius’s new novel, his 12th.
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