Project Maven: Artificial Intelligence in Warfare

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future warfare question. In U.S. strikes against Iran, AI systems born from Project Maven have helped identify and prioritize thousands of targets, accelerating intelligence analysis and operational planning. At the same time, the relationship between the Pentagon and the AI companies building these tools has fractured in public view, raising urgent questions about who controls the most consequential technology on the modern battlefield.

Join the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) on Wednesday, March 25, from 1:00–2:00 p.m. ET for a live event with Katrina Manson, Bloomberg reporter and author of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare, and Paul Scharre, CNAS executive vice president and author of the Pentagon’s autonomous weapons policy, as well as two books: Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and the award-winning Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War. In this discussion, Manson and Scharre will explore how AI moved from a classified Pentagon experiment to the center of American military operations and what that means for the future of warfare.

Live viewers will have the opportunity to ask questions during the event.