Shawn Ryan Show: Byron Boots on Self-Driving Military Vehicles and Battlefield AI

About this episode

A Polaris RZR turned autonomous shows how AI is reshaping modern warfare. This Shawn Ryan Show episode with host Shawn Ryan and guest Byron Boots, CEO of Overland AI, condenses a deep dive into machine learning, defense tech, and battlefield autonomy into a fast listen in minutes instead of the full conversation. Boots explains why perception is prediction, how autonomous vehicles can sense terrain, plan routes, and keep working when communications fail, and why autonomy can be safer than teleoperation in contested environments. You’ll hear how these systems support resupply, reconnaissance, breaching, and counter-UAS missions, plus the long-term vision of one operator coordinating hundreds…