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“We’re talking about millions of devices all over the world that are supposedly sending information into some kind of centralized point in the military-industrial apparatus from which they can control everything,” Peter Byrne of Project Censored tells us. “That is their plan.”
BY MARC STEINER SEPTEMBER 9, 2025 (therealnews.com)
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump host tech leaders, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (L) and Microsoft founder Bill Gates (R) for a dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2025. Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
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The unnerving alliance between Big Tech and the second Trump administration goes much deeper than many in the public realize. What factors are motivating President Trump and Silicon Valley’s monumental investments in “artificial intelligence” infrastructure and the expanded integration of “AI” into military and governmental operating systems? What is their endgame? What will their vision of an AI future mean for the rest of us? In his new investigative series Military AI Watch, produced in partnership with Project Censored, award-winning science reporter Peter Byrne explores “how Silicon Valley, corporate media, the Department of Defense, the banking industry, and scientific institutions all intersect in the effort to militarize AI.” In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Byrne and TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez about “AI” today and the techno-dystopian future on the horizon.
Guest:
- Peter Byrne is an award-winning investigative reporter and science writer based in Northern California. He specializes in reporting on physics, nuclear warfare, medical research, local and national politics, corporate and governmental corruption, and, now, the weaponization of artificial intelligence. Byrne’s work has been published in Scientific American, New Scientist, Quanta, Wired, Mother Jones, SF Weekly, CounterPunch, The Edge, Project Censored, and other publications. Byrne has published books and chapters on multiple universes and the history of quantum physics with Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, and Springer.
Additional resources:
- Project Censored, Military AI Watch
- Peter Byrne, Project Censored, “One Ring to Rule Them All: Silicon Valley’ plan to conquer the world with AI weapons. Can we do anything about it?”
- Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “‘Microsoft is an active partner in the genocide!’: Inside the tech worker revolt for Palestine”
- Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “A bitcoin mine in Texas is “killing us slowly,” local residents say”
- Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “AI data centers are draining water from this drought-stricken Mexican town”
- Harry Davies & Yuval Abraham, The Guardian, “‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians”
Credits:
- Producer: Rosette Sewali
- Studio Production: David Hebden
- Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank
Transcript
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Marc Steiner is the host of “The Marc Steiner Show” on TRNN. He is a Peabody Award-winning journalist who has spent his life working on social justice issues. He walked his first picket line at age 13, and at age 16 became the youngest person in Maryland arrested at a civil rights protest during the Freedom Rides through Cambridge. As part of the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968, Marc helped organize poor white communities with the Young Patriots, the white Appalachian counterpart to the Black Panthers. Early in his career he counseled at-risk youth in therapeutic settings and founded a theater program in the Maryland State prison system. He also taught theater for 10 years at the Baltimore School for the Arts. From 1993-2018 Marc’s signature “Marc Steiner Show” aired on Baltimore’s public radio airwaves, both WYPR—which Marc co-founded—and Morgan State University’s WEAA.
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