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Trae Stephens Has Built AI Weapons and Worked for Donald Trump. As He Sees It, Jesus Would Approve
Trae Stephens is deep in the defense-startup world as a Founders Fund partner and Anduril cofounder. His bunker, though, isn’t fully prepped for the end times.
None were interested in a kid from a hardscrabble Ohio town, so he traveled uninvited to Washington, DC, barged into the applications office at Georgetown University, and talked his way into the School of Foreign Service, where among other things he learned Arabic. People are looking at what’s happening in Ukraine or Israel, or the potential threat to Taiwan, and they’re saying, “Man, I would love to spend time working on things that are going to move the needle for humanity.” That doesn’t always look like defense, but it does involve harder tech problems. I don’t think it’s possible to find a political candidate that you agree with 100 percent of the time, but broadly speaking, it’s important that incredibly smart people from the private sector are open to serving the country in public office, and I’m glad to see JD doing that.
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