Inside Project Maven, the US Military’s Mysterious AI Project
Today on the Big Take DC Podcast: Host Saleha Mohsin and reporter Katrina Manson trace the creation of Project Maven — and what it means for both the promise and peril of AI in the US military.
Fed new data inputs from the real world, Project Maven’s AI algorithms identify points of interest, which operators can verify or reject. On the Maven Smart System interface, commanders can view the whole battlefield at a glance. For example, yellow-outlined boxes show potential targets and blue-outlined boxes indicate friendly forces or no-strike zones, like schools or hospitals.
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On today’s episode, the US military’s mysterious project to bring modern artificial intelligence to the battlefield — told by the defense official behind it, whose job was so secretive he couldn’t even tell his wife about it. Bloomberg’s Katrina Manson takes host Saleha Mohsin behind the scenes for an unclassified look at Project Maven.