Episode Notes:

Patrick sits down with Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider, the Hargrove Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of its Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, who spent six years as an Air Force intelligence officer before building a career in scholarship. They trace her path from the watch floor to designing war games that study how people decide when information is incomplete and assumptions fall apart. Schneider explains what those games expose about human behavior under pressure, and why AI models tend to reach for escalation once the stakes turn open-ended.

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