Emily Boutin, 21, a 2024 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, knows firsthand the impact of war on military families. Parts of her childhood were spent waiting for her father, a U.S. Army commander, to return safely from his combat deployments. Interning at the Pentagon and the U.S. Army War College, she researched the role of artificial intelligence in modern combat. On scholarship at IE University in Madrid she will study how the U.S. can deploy advanced military technologies while ensuring they don’t outpace the need for ethical rules to govern them.