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Nov 3, 2026
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Artificial intelligence can compress much of this organization.
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Project Maven and XVIII Airborne Corps give us a striking example.
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A CSET study found that an AI-enabled targeting process associated with the Scarlet Dragon exercises could achieve artillery targeting performance comparable to one of the strongest American examples from Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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While using roughly twenty people, where the older targeting organization involved around two thousand.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
And that was a key insight of where their leverage was at the time.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
The problem was, after tech workers won these amazing things, like getting Google to drop Project Maven, a project with the Pentagon, or getting Amazon to commit to a net zero carbon emissions pledge by 2040.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
These were huge wins that demonstrate the power of the working class.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
Every win was followed by retaliation, where the boss fired core organizers.
Sharon WeinbergerGUEST
Actually, I mean, there's a lot of books coming out now.
Sharon WeinbergerGUEST
One of the ones I recommend, particularly for people in the AI issue, is it's called Project Maven.
Sharon WeinbergerGUEST
And Project Maven was the name of this AI program that became very controversial in 2018.
Sharon WeinbergerGUEST
It's written by a Bloomberg journalist, Katrina Manson, who just did fabulous reporting on the issue.
Sharon WeinbergerGUEST
So people really interested in the AI issue, I do recommend that book.
Jacob SprangGUEST
And when data is being used for these purposes, It creates a question of, or providing any data raises the question of how complicit are you in prolonging the suffering of people, which is why largely there was a massive pushback from the humanitarian community to provide any of this information.
Brad OnishiHOST
Okay, with all of that in mind, and just to wrap up here in the last couple of minutes, we think about Palantir and Project Maven.
Brad OnishiHOST
We think about not only the ability to collect data on people, but the desire to collect data.
Brad OnishiHOST
As you're saying, a for-profit humanitarian scheme, which seems, again, to be an oxymoron.
Theo LipskyHOST
Each episode features one book, fiction or nonfiction, new or old, bestseller or cult classic, and we give it a close read to find lessons about war, about leadership, and about character.
John AmbleHOST
On this episode, Project Maven, A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare by Katrina Manson.
Theo LipskyHOST
Welcome back to the MWI Book Club, a podcast from the Modern War Institute at West Point.
Theo LipskyHOST
This podcast is predicated on the idea that an army that reads is an army better prepared to fight wars.
John AmbleHOST
This is the first very, very contemporary book that we're talking about.
John AmbleHOST
It was just published this year in 2026.
John AmbleHOST
It's called Project Maven by Katrina Manson.
Theo LipskyHOST
Yes, subtitle, A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare.
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Lattice is just one example of the military's increasing use of AI.
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The Pentagon has been developing Project Maven, an AI system that analyzes images from military drones and helps suggest targets.
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Google initially won this contract in 2018, but backed out after thousands of workers protested the deal.
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Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft, and Anduril are currently among the main contributors.
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I have questions.
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The Trump administration says the U.S. has struck 11,000 targets in Iran since the war began.
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The military's largely relied on an AI system known as Project Maven to speed up the process of identifying targets.
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But critics have questioned the accuracy of the AI system.
Justin CarlsonGUEST
It was built out of necessity by engineers.
Justin CarlsonGUEST
And at that point, after they built it, they then had an opportunity to work on a project, a government project called Project Maven, which was a collaboration between various governments, along with top tier universities, and they needed that same ephemeral environment to collaborate in that had high DLP data loss protection controls in place such that these enclaves could be collaborated within.
Justin CarlsonGUEST
And at the end of the day, no information could leave.
Justin CarlsonGUEST
And that is where Chasm was born out of.
speaker_10NARRATOR
Lattice is just one example of the military's increasing use of AI.
speaker_10NARRATOR
The Pentagon has been developing Project Maven, an AI system that analyzes images from military drones and helps suggest targets.
speaker_10NARRATOR
Google initially won this contract in 2018, but backed out after thousands of workers protested the deal.
speaker_10NARRATOR
Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft, and Anduril are currently among the main contributors.
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I have questions.
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The Trump administration says the U.S. has struck 11,000 targets in Iran since the war began.
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The military's largely relied on an AI system known as Project Maven to speed up the process of identifying targets.
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But critics have questioned the accuracy of the AI system.
Naomi KleinGUEST
But we know that this technology, I mean, Alex Karp has said as much.
Naomi KleinGUEST
We know that Project Maven, which is their platform that has anthropic AI embedded in it, was used in the targeting at the beginning of the attack on Iran by the US and by Israel.
Naomi KleinGUEST
We know that it has been used in these boat attacks, which are absolutely lawless.
Naomi KleinGUEST
So there is an accelerationism happening on the tech right.
UrbanHOST
Okay.
UrbanHOST
meaning on the right, hypermasculine, the God's eye, meaning you can see everything from a state of omniscience because you have a drone AI dashboard that can show you all this Project Maven, Palantir, you know, you can track and you can see everything.
UrbanHOST
You don't have any emotional attachment because you're far away.
UrbanHOST
You're looking through cameras, but very intimate.
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UrbanHOST
Let me see if I actually have that clip and I would like to play that for you guys actually, just because you guys can have this in mind.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Good morning.
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I want to take you back to the year 2016, because that's really where the story of Project Maven began, even before the project stood up formally as the algorithmic warfare cross-functional team, because it began with a hypothesis.
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What does the third offset look like? If anybody knows about the offset strategies of the late 20th century, the first offset, or basically it was the function of how do we overcome differences in mass and scale that our adversaries have on top of us in order to wield a more effective and aggressive strategy.
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