A look at Project Maven, the US DOD's flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data
and could run at speeds faster than humans can comprehend https://www.bloomberg.com/... Katrina Manson / @katrinamanson : AI identifies targets and supplies Maven Smart System, along with other data feeds. A “tactical data link” can transmit a commander's decision to fire between MSS and a weapon. Katrina Manson / @katrinamanson : As a result of Project Maven, the Pentagon's controversial 2017 effort to bring AI to combat, I learned the US is already using AI targeting to find enemy targets they have then struck with weapons fire, in Iraq and Syria. Katrina Manson / @katrinamanson : With Maven's assistance, one senior targeting officer told me he can now sign off on as many as 80 targets in an hour of work, versus 30 without it. Katrina Manson / @katrinamanson : Trusting the computer entirely would be faster still, but a senior targeting officer said that would introduce errors. “I don't ever wanna get caught short. We get caught short, we're screwed.” https://www.bloomberg.com/... Katrina Manson / @katrinamanson : AI warfare deep dive I finally got to see Maven Smart System, the US military platform that ingests Maven AI targeting data and other feeds, and which I learned operates in more than 100 locations, from the Middle East to the White House. https://www.bloomberg.com/... @technology : The US military has embraced AI to locate targets they've gone on to strike — a confirmation that demonstrates AI warfare is already here. @KatrinaManson explains https://www.bloomberg.com/... [video] Elke Schwarz / @elkeschwarz : I remember distinctly in 2019 when I was dismissed by a US think tanker for suggesting that Project Maven would be used for precisely this kind of accelerated targeting. This speed with which goal post change should concern us all (1/4) https://www.bloomberg.com/... Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : The US military's Maven system for identifying battlefield targets using AI is only accurate 30-60% of the time, depending on conditions. https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image] Sam Biddle / @samfbiddle : The Army source quoted in this article says Project Maven, currently being used to help blow things up in Yemen, Iraq, and Ukraine, has a 60% accuracy rate w/ identifying objects, as sometimes “the system confuses a truck with a tree or ravine” https://www.bloomberg.com/... LinkedIn: Matthew Campbell : It was fascinating and not a little disturbing to work on this excellent story by Katrina Manson, about the steady progress of artificial intelligence on the battlefield. … Paul Szoldra : One prominent critic of the pace of progress is Roper, the official who helped set Maven up in the first place. “I still think DOD is just not out of the starting blocks,” he says. …