{"id":93,"date":"2026-04-24T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/project-maven-military-ai-katrina-manson\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:00:00","slug":"project-maven-military-ai-katrina-manson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/project-maven-military-ai-katrina-manson\/","title":{"rendered":"<div>How Project Maven taught the military to love AI<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: The Verge, WW Norton\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/268484_How_the_US_embraced_AI_warfare_CVirginia.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">In the first 24 hours of the assault on Iran, the US military struck more than 1,000 targets, nearly double the scale of the &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; attack on Iraq over two decades ago. This acceleration was made possible by AI systems that speed up the targeting process. Chief among them is the Maven Smart System.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In her new book,<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/wwnorton.com\/books\/project-maven\"><em>Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare<\/em><\/a>, journalist Katrina Manson investigates the development of Maven from its inception in 2017 as an experiment in applying computer vision to drone footage. The project spurred employee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/4\/4\/17199818\/google-pentagon-project-maven-pull-out-letter-ceo-sundar-pichai\">protests at Google<\/a>, the military&#8217;s initial contractor, prompting the \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/917996\/project-maven-military-ai-katrina-manson\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>In the first 24 hours of the assault on Iran, the US military struck more than 1,000 targets, nearly double the scale of the &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; attack on Iraq over two decades ago. This acceleration was made possible by AI systems that speed up the targeting process. Chief among them is the Maven Smart [\u2026]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36,37],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-consumer-tech","tag-culture-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}