Omniscience, Omnipresence, and Omnipotence: Meet the Gods of AI warfare
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WIRED — The rise of AI warfare speaks to the biggest moral and practical question there is: Who—or what—gets to decide to take a human life? And who bears that cost?
In 2018, more than 3,000 Google workers protested the company’s involvement in “the business of war” after finding out the company was part of Project Maven, then a nascent Pentagon effort to use computer vision to rifle through copious video footage taken in America’s overseas drone wars. They feared Project Maven’s AI could one day be used for lethal targeting.
In my yearslong effort to uncover the full story of Project Maven for my book, Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare, I learned that is exactly what happened, and that the undertaking was just as controversial inside the Pentagon. But that didn’t slow its forward march. Today, the tool known as Maven Smart System is being used in US operations against Iran.
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