The AI War on Iran: Project Maven, a Secretive Palantir-Run System, Helps Pentagon Pick Bomb Targets

The Trump administration says the United States has struck 11,000 targets in Iran since the U.S.-Israeli war on the country began. Critics have questioned the accuracy of the Maven system, the artificial intelligence system used by the military to speed up the process of identifying targets. “Imagine Google Earth for war, a map of war with white dots, infused with information like elevation, coordinate, what is precisely there, whether it’s friendly or foe,” says Katrina Manson, a reporter for Bloomberg News and author of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare. The Pentagon launched Project Maven in 2017. Google was an initial partner, but the company pulled out after over 3,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the work. The big data firm Palantir then took over the project and has run it ever since.

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„Wenn Sie die Directive 3000.09 lesen, steht dort klar, dass immer ein ‚angemessenes Maß an menschlichem Urteil‘ in der #KillChain vorhanden sein muss“, sagt Sauer. Man könne also kein System bauen, morgens auf einen Knopf drücken und sagen: „Gewinn mal den Krieg gegen den Iran.“ (b h) #FrankSauer #MilitaryAI #MeaningfulHumanControl
"Menschen, die töten" (Menschen, die direkt dafür Entscheidung und Verantwortung tragen) durch Technologie, anschaulich als #KillChain bezeichnet.
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“Decision” is wandering now. In the military context it means the system’s output, a targeting nomination scored and forwarded. In journalism and tech criticism it means much the same, the thing the AI got wrong. In neither of these does it mean what it used to mean, which is a person choosing to do something for which they could be held accountable. People are still making decisions in that sense. Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided...🧵

Palantir boldly defends its pivotal role in the "kill chain," with CEO Alex Karp declaring: "We are very, very proud of that." ⚔️💻 The tech giant highlights its AI-driven contributions to military precision amid fierce debate. #Palantir #AI #KillChain https://www.heise.de/en/news/Palantir-defends-its-role-in-the-kill-chain-We-are-very-very-proud-of-that-11211275.html

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Palantir defends its role in the kill chain: “We are very, very proud of that”

“There are no secrets” is Palantir’s conference motto. Yet how its software actually works in live operation remains a secret to outsiders.

heise online

"In Iran, AI has potentially already been involved in identifying exponentially more targets than in previous wars, said Utrecht University’s Dorsey. Those targets could have existed beforehand — or they could have been generated quickly by AI systems, creating a serious concern about how carefully these have been vetted as required by law, she said.

“How do you lift the veil on a system making 37mn computations per second? How on earth would you even be able to even trace that back in any way?” Dorsey said. “Are you going to meaningfully exercise context-appropriate human control and judgment over decisions that are generated by these systems?”"

https://www.ft.com/content/fedb262e-e6db-40bc-a4d0-080812f0f82b

#Iran #USA #KillChain #AI #Palantir #Anthropic

The AI-driven ‘kill chain’ transforming how the US wages war

Systems from Palantir and Anthropic are helping to turn torrents of battlefield data into thousands of strikes

Financial Times

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(changing) action on (even moving) target by using kanban .
this is real innovative. 111.

clos8ng the .. #killchain ?!?

#palantir_workflow

«Schneller, tödlicher — Wie Künstliche Intelligenz die "Kill Chain" im Krieg verkürzt:
Bei den Waffensystemen selbst ist der Hype größer als die tatsächliche Wirkung. Im Hintergrund erweist sich die Technologie aber als erschreckend wirkungsvoll»

Das zeitlich aktuelle Technik im Krieg eingesetzt wird, ist seit jeher so. Nun zeigt dies uns auch bei KI & Co. und dies nicht erst seit heute (schon ca. 5 Jahre).

🤖 https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000310967/wie-kuenstliche-intelligenz-die-kill-chain-im-krieg-verkuerzt

#krieg #ki #KIKrieg #killchain #hype #usa #waffen #ukraine

Wie Künstliche Intelligenz die "Kill Chain" im Krieg verkürzt

Bei den Waffensystemen selbst ist der Hype größer als die tatsächliche Wirkung. Im Hintergrund erweist sich die Technologie aber als erschreckend wirkungsvoll

DER STANDARD

"Shortening the kill chain” - quicker than “the speed of thought”

"The use of AI tools to enable attacks on Iran heralds a new era of bombing quicker than “the speed of thought”, experts have said, amid fears human ­decision-makers could be sidelined... Academics say AI is collapsing the time required for military decision-making. >>
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/iran-war-heralds-era-of-ai-powered-bombing-quicker-than-speed-of-thought
#technology #AI #ethics #KillChain #FullyAutonomousWeapons #algorithm #CognitiveOffLoading #speed #violence #DecisionMaking #HumanOversight

Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’

Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

The Guardian