Pentagon's AI War Machine: How Silicon Valley Built It
New book reveals how the Pentagon recruited Big Tech to develop AI-powered weapons now being deployed against Iran.
A forthcoming book called Project Maven is pulling back the curtain on the Pentagon's cozy relationship with Silicon Valley — and it's not about chatbots.
The book details how the U.S. military actively recruited tech companies to build AI-powered tools of war. Not productivity software. Not enterprise dashboards. Weapons systems powered by artificial intelligence.
The kicker? Those tools aren't theoretical anymore. According to the excerpt published by Bloomberg, the AI warfare capabilities developed through Project Maven are now actively playing out in Iran.
Project Maven has long been a lightning rod in the tech world, famously sparking employee protests at Google back in 2018. But the program clearly didn't slow down. It scaled up.
The book, authored by Katrina Manson, lays out how the Pentagon's vision for AI-driven conflict moved from PowerPoint slides to operational reality.