Fortune | FORTUNE 2024年10月16日
Andreessen Horowitz defense tech investor Katherine Boyle says ‘Ukraine changed everything’
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几年前科技行业对国防科技保持距离,如今观念完全逆转。乌克兰战争改变了年轻人对国防部工作的看法。Boyle称现在创始人对美国国家安全等更积极。Hamrick指出商业技术与国家安全所用技术存在差距。Boyle强调应让更多人和公司与国防部合作解决创新差距,还提到此类投资的伦理考虑。

🎯几年前科技行业试图与国防科技保持距离,但乌克兰战争使情况发生改变,年轻人对国防部工作的看法有所不同,创始人对国家安全等方面的态度变得积极。

💻Hamrick指出商业可用技术与国家安全所使用的技术之间存在很大差距,她曾在情报工作中发现问题,这促使她共同创立了Vannevar Labs。

🚀Boyle强调由于现代战争的科技化,更多人和公司应与国防部合作,以解决创新方面的差距,否则美国可能在未来的战争中失败。

🤔对于这类投资或产品开发的伦理考虑,Boyle认为新兴技术能让美国军队更精确地行动,减少对平民的伤害,这主要是为了起到威慑作用。

It’s remarkable how quickly things can change. While the tech industry was trying to keep defense tech at arms length just a few years ago, that sentiment has completely reversed. “The war in Ukraine changed everything about how young people think about the Department of Defense’s work, and really the important mission of deterrence and making sure that we invest in the next technologies,” Katherine Boyle, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, said on stage at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Conference on Tuesday.Boyle, who cofounded a16z’s American Dynamism fund and has backed defense tech company Anduril and Elon Musk’s SpaceX, said on stage that she would get “laughed out of rooms” when she asked about whether companies were selling their technology to the Department of Defense. Now, Boyle said, founders she speaks with are motivated about America’s national security and deterring war and armed conflict. “We have a company that literally has said: Xi Jinping is setting our product strategy,” Boyle noted.But there is still a wide gap between commercially available technology and what is being used in national security, according to Nini Hamrick, cofounder and president of Vannevar Labs, an a16z portfolio company that makes software and hardware for U.S. intelligence missions, who also spoke on the panel.Hamrick, who worked in intelligence for seven years, pointed out how her intelligence team in Afghanistan had a software engineer, and had critical technology. When she came back to the U.S., and was working on a mission to rescue U.S. hostages in Syria, she noticed a “big gap” in what was available to them.“The companies that we were procuring software from were a very small set of traditional primes—none of whom are software companies,” Hamrick said, noting how she then was motivated to cofound Vannevar Labs.Boyle emphasized how, because warfare is so technological now, more people and companies should be working with the Department of Defense in addressing this gap in innovation. “We are seeing Russia [and] China build up their defense industrial base—invest in manufacturing, invest in capabilities. And they have no problem, as they are authoritarian dictatorships, making the best and brightest in those countries work on those problems that will be used for war against us,” Boyle said. She later added: “if we do not get our young people, who are accelerating and building new technologies at a rate we have never seen before, to work with the Department of Defense, we are going to lose the battle of the future.”When asked about the ethical considerations of these kinds of investments or product developments, Boyle said that these burgeoning technologies allow the U.S. military to operate with greater precision and do less harm to civilians.“This is so much about deterrence,” she said later. “It’s making sure that the war of the future doesn’t happen, and if it does happen, that it happens as quickly as possible or in as precise a way as possible.”Recommended newsletter The Broadsheet: Covers the trends and issues impacting women in and out of the workplace and the women transforming the future of business. Sign up here.

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