Inside Project Maven, the US Military’s AI Project

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, senior Washington correspondent Saleha Mohsin talks for her podcast with a former Defense official about the US military’s use of artificial intelligence for the battlefield. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

In 2017, the US military embarked on a project to bring artificial intelligence to warfare. The former Defense official who pitched what’s now called Project Maven told Bloomberg about Big Tech’s capabilities to scan photos and identify objects on the battlefield.