Pentagon develops Project Maven to launch era of AI warfare

4 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Apr 28

Project Maven emerged after Marine Colonel Drew Cukor raised concerns about U.S. military competitiveness with China in AI.
The program integrates artificial intelligence into military operations, with AI now controlling key stages of modern weapons, especially drones.
Despite regulations requiring human judgment, the rapid adoption of AI in warfare raises unresolved ethical questions about decision-making and accountability in lethal force.

As the Pentagon clashes with tech firms over AI safety, who will decide the ethics of our future robot soldiers?

AI has moved from foreign battlefields to US border control. What happens when 'automation bias' affects domestic security?

Are human soldiers becoming mere supervisors for autonomous killing machines that make a billion detections?

If an AI kills civilians by mistake, who is held accountable: the coder, the commander, or no one at all?

With AI now shortening the 'kill chain' to seconds, can international law possibly keep up with the new speed of war?

An AI's 'hallucination' led to a school bombing. What happens when the next error targets a capital city?