Full Interview: Chad Butler on Drones, AI, and Autonomous Failure

<p>This is the full interview version of our conversation with Chad Butler.</p><p><br></p><p>Chad previously worked in product security at Amazon and was involved with Prime Air, Amazon&#39;s drone delivery program. He joins Joe Patti and Adam Roth to talk about drone delivery, FAA rules, GPS spoofing, detect-and-avoid, ADS-B, autonomous vehicles, AI agents, and the engineering culture needed when software failures can become physical-world safety failures.</p><p><br></p><p>Topics include:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Prime Air and product security</li><li>commercial drone delivery risk</li><li>Part 107 and Part 108</li><li>beyond visual line of sight operations</li><li>GPS spoofing and drone capture</li><li>detect-and-avoid vs right of way</li><li>ADS-B tradeoffs</li><li>why pilots may not reliably see drones</li><li>autonomous vehicles and AI agents</li><li>adversarial inputs and edge cases</li><li>public trust after catastrophic failures</li><li>Challenger, Feynman, and ignored engineering warnings</li></ul>