Posted 2/27/2024, 10:39:40 AM
Pentagon Uses AI to Assist with Over 85 Air Strikes in Middle East This Month
- The Pentagon used AI developed under Project Maven to identify air strike targets in the Middle East this month.
- The AI helped identify targets for over 85 air strikes against facilities in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
- The Pentagon used Maven-developed AI to locate rocket launchers in Yemen and ships in the Red Sea for additional strikes.
- Google stopped renewing its Project Maven contract in 2019 due to employee protests, but the military still experiments with targeting algorithms.
- Human personnel verify AI-identified targets and decide how to stage attacks, so AI is never fully autonomous in the strike process.