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

This is the full interview version of our conversation with Chad Butler.Chad previously worked in product security at Amazon and was involved with Prime Air, Amazon'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.Topics include:Prime Air and product securitycommercial drone delivery riskPart 107 and Part 108beyond visual line of sight operationsGPS spoofing and drone capturedetect-and-avoid vs right of wayADS-B tradeoffswhy pilots may not reliably see dronesautonomous vehicles and AI agentsadversarial inputs and edge casespublic trust after catastrophic failuresChallenger, Feynman, and ignored engineering warnings