Jay Tuck is a US security expert, investigative journalist and award-winning television producer. He was head of the ARD Tagesthemen programme for many years. In lectures, he talks about how AI influences modern warfare.
The New York born journalist Jay Tuck launched his career with the US Department of the Treasury in Washington, D.C. and with CBS News in New York. He later moved on to a distinguished career in international news. In Germany, he produced over 500 investigative segments for ARD-Network Television. He served as combat correspondent on the battlefields of Kuwait, Iraq and Ukraine, as well as on the aircraft carrier USS Truman in wartime.
He holds military clearances in eight countries. He was employed for many years as Executive News Director at ARD Television and has significant expertise in defense, espionage and weapons technology.
Jay Tuck Keynote topics
THE NEW BALANCE OF POWER
- AI and Modern Warfare
Drones with swarm intelligence collect for the armed forces strategic intelligence. In the skies over Ukraine, 15,000 special forces units operate surveillance and suicide drones. At sea, submarine drones pose a serious threat to the Russian Navy. In Gaza, fresh high-altitude images are compared with historic pictures to identify tunnel construction sites. Weapon for weapon seasoned battlefield expert Jay Tuck examines how artificial intelligence is shifting the balance of power between east and west.
AI AND HEALTH
- Saving Lives by the Millions
Today, a simple doctor’s visit can generate huge quantities of Big Data. Until recently, we had no idea what life-saving information was buried in it. Artificial intelligence can dig through the masses of information, uncovering unexpected life-saving correlations. An examination of the retina, for example, can reveal an initial indication of Leprosy. On the feet, the first signs of an impending heart attack appear. But AI is not only helpful with diagnosis. The global outbreak of Covid-19 was first detected by a small data company in Canada – four weeks before the WHO. And today, the pharmaceutical industry would be seriously impaired without the AI review of all new medications.
FACIALS, FORENSICS AND FUGITIVES
- Artificial Intelligence in Police Work
From television shows, we know that police often use ballistics to identify a murder weapon. Detectives often end up combing crime scenes for hours to find the bullet. This is no longer necessary. With AI, micromarkings on the shell are sufficient for identification. Facial recognition is also known as a useful tool for identifying suspects. It was used to successfully identify – and arrest – RAF terrorist Daniela Klette. But there are limitations. Klette was identified by a journalist. The software he used is prohibited for police work in Germany. In his dramatic talk, Jay Tuck describes the blessings and curses of police technologies.
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A PINCH OF PESTICIDE
- AI on the Farm
With artificial intelligence, single plants can be treated with pesticide instead of dumping huge quantities of poison on entire fields. LettuceBot, for example, is a weed-picking machine hooked behind a tractor. Before spraying, however, each plant is examined individually. Only infected plants are treated. Others receive no pesticide. The manufacturer estimates that dangerous substances can be reduced to 1/1.000th. That would be an enormous improvement for consumers. But the production of pesticide is a billion-dollar business. Most likely, there will be resistance from the industry.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE BROKERS GONE?
- AI and the Stock Market
To a large part, global financial markets today are automated. The humming of high-speed computers has replaced the yelling and screaming of human brokers. AI is the better broker. Intelligent software is capable of monitoring millions of business deals around the world – in real-time. Only with AI is it possible to analyze factors as diverse as a typhoon off the coast of Japan and the newly elected union leader in the copper mines of Chile – and make meaningful predictions on stock prices. AI can calculate the lightning deals on modern markets in mere microseconds.
And it learns more with every transaction.
FIGHTING FAKE NEWS
- How to Recognize it. How to Combat it.
For many years, Jay Tuck served as Executive News Director at German TV’s prestigious news program Tagesthemen. There, he bore responsibility for preventing the broadcast of false news. He knows how to recognize it. He knows how to combat it. He is also familiar with the methods used by US news channel CNN and the Arabic broadcaster Al-Jazeera. His strategies and skills are not only important for news professionals.
They are surprising. And very effective.
Tuck’s investigative book on Russian espionage, High-Tech Espionage (St. Martin’s Press) was published in fourteen countries. His book on artificial intelligence, Evolution Without Us (Plassen Publishing) is a best-seller in Germany, also published in China. The German Ministry of Defense purchased 10,000 copies distributing them to the armed forces. His current work, “AI and Modern Warfare,” (Econ Publishing) was researched on the battlefields of the Ukraine War.
Jay Tuck is also an internationally acclaimed speaker on artificial intelligence. As a TV guy, he is comfortable both in front of large audiences or television cameras. He appears regularly at private banks and financial institutions, media and medical events, law enforcement and armed forces, such as the Officers Academy of the German Army in Hamburg or the World Bank. His TED-Talk on artificial intelligence reached more than five million views in the internet.
In his recreational time, Tuck is a runner. He was the first American ever to complete the Siberian Ice Marathon in Omsk.