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PROJECT MAVEN: A MARINE COLONEL, HIS TEAM, AND THE DAWN OF AI WARFARE, by Katrina Manson
When the future histories of modern warfare are written, August 27, 2020, may go down as one of the most important dates . That evening, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the 18th Airborne Corps carried out the first strike that was selected and executed by artificial intelligence.
For a first, it wasn’t particularly impressive. The systems involved barely communicated, and it took nearly 12 hours to detect the old tank hull that had been wheeled onto a firing range. After human overseers confirmed the target, the system launched a HIMARS rocket that destroyed it. Still, the fire support officer at the 18th Airborne Corps who organized the test kept a photo of the strike on his office wall. “It showed the…
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