What happens when you shift AI out of text chats and into physical machines operating on the battlefield? Ex-Head of AI at Amazon Germany Krishna Kumaar Sharma joins Joe Steagall to explain how his startup, Omokai, is engineering a speech-driven intelligence layer for autonomous drones and robotics.

From sovereign AI development in Europe and the stark realities of AI-driven warfare between Russia and Ukraine to the core principles in his UC Berkeley research paper and upcoming book "Agentic Coding the Boring Way," Krishna shares an engineer's perspective on building reliable, zero-hallucination guardrails for autonomous hardware.

Venture & Platform:
https://omokai.com

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Introduction & Building the Future of Human-Machine Interaction
01:12 - What Sovereign AI Means for Global Defense
02:24 - Leaving Amazon: Corporate Constraints vs. Startup Innovation
07:10 - Why Physical AI Requires More Than Large Language Models
10:10 - Eliminating Hallucinations With Multi-Algorithmic Guardrails
14:15 - The Reality of Autonomous Drones in Modern Warfare
17:35 - Ethics, Governance, and Legal Responsibility in AI Operations
21:28 - The Essential Guardrails for Autonomous Targeting
22:40 - Agentic Coding the Boring Way: Sustainable Software Architecture
26:37 - The Ultimate Goal: Safe Human-Robot Collaboration



Commanding Drones With Natural Language: Ex-Amazon AI Lead Krishna Kumaar Sharma on Omokai & Autonomous Warfare

What happens when you shift AI out of text chats and into physical machines operating on the battlefield? Ex-Head of AI at Amazon Germany Krishna Kumaar Sharma joins Joe Steagall to explain how his st

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Commanding Drones With Natural Language: Ex-Amazon AI Lead Krishna Kumaar Sharma on Omokai & Autonomous Warfare

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