Name: Sci-Fi Combined Arms: Armor, Infantry, Artillery, Cyber… and AI?
Start: 2025-06-20T21:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-20T22:00:00-0400

Friday June 20, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT

CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming)

Sci-Fi Combined Arms: Armor, Infantry, Artillery, Cyber… and AI? Is AI an effector or an enabler, and how does this change future representations of battle? Is the practical definition of AI for military use Synthetic sentience versus expert systems? What are the differences and what’s achievable at scale and low cost? Is AI an effector or an enabler, and how does this change future representations of battle? Shane Gries, moderator.

Moderators

Shane Gries

Shane Gries is a career soldier, student of history and writer. He spent over seventeen years serving overseas. He’s a graduate of Airborne School, Ranger School, earned his Expert Infantryman Badge and did some time in combat. Now he writes books about zombies and stuff that blows... Read More →

Guests

Aaron Haskins

A.C. Haskins is an economist, data geek, and combat veteran, and occasionally he writes stuff related to his many interests, including (but not limited to) ancient and medieval history, mythology, martial arts, guns, and theoretical economics. He lives in Michigan with his lovely... Read More →

Rick Partlow

Rick Partlow is an Army veteran with a degree in History from Florida Southern College. He is the author of 51 military SF and space opera novels including the Dragon Award finalist Direct Fire

Devon Eriksen

Devon Eriksen is a recent Chattanooga transplant, marksman, and life-long reader, with a particular fondness for classics from the golden age of science fiction. After growing up with images of the galaxy brought home by his JPL engineer father, he spent most of his career as a software... Read More →

Bill Fawcett

Bill Fawcett is an American writer, editor, anthologist, and game designer. He co-authored the official Mycroft Holmes Mysteries and over a dozen other novels. Bill has also written almost a dozen historical non-fiction books. He founded Mayfair Games and also designs board and computer... Read More →

Daniel M. Hoyt

Daniel M. Hoyt is a systems architect for trajectory physics software, when not writing or wrangling royalty calculations. Dan has appeared in premier magazines like Analog and several anthologies, notably the recent Paladins of Valor and Bonds of Valor, with connected stories in... Read More →

Friday June 20, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

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