Project Maven : a Marine colonel, his team, and the dawn of AI warfare / Katrina Manson.
| Author/creator | Manson, Katrina author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, [2026] |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A note on sources -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part one. Find: 1. Old wars -- 2. Tilting at windmills -- 3. We do what we want -- 4. They call it algorithmic warfare -- 5. The first Mavenites -- 6. Relaxed about fury -- 7. The colonel and the math whiz -- 8. Somalia -- 9. Moral outrage -- Part two. Fix: 10. The algorithms have no clue -- 11. Harbinger of doom -- 12. Arms race -- 13. Daddy Karp -- 14. Palantir, Palantir, Palantir -- 15. Palantir splits the team -- 16. A striking operation -- 17. Data hell -- Part three. Finish: 18. We'll find it and we'll strike it -- 19. Nobody knows targeting better than Trey -- 20. Kill chain -- 21. Ukraine fights back -- 22. Tens of thousands of targets -- 23. We've drunk the Kool-Aid -- Part four. Feedback: 24. Machines shouldn't kill people -- 25. Trump's robots -- 26. The Winchester House -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
| Abstract | "The dramatic story of the secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver America into the age of AI warfare."-- Publisher. |
| Abstract | "In 2017, a small crew gathered in a windowless Pentagon room to put AI at the heart of how America makes war. Led by Drew Cukor, an unyielding Marine Corps colonel driven by the deaths of US troops and the prospect of war with an AI-equipped China, the Project Maven team raced to send AI into combat, igniting controversy and forever changing the US military. Summoning the mayhem of a tech startup, the Maven team wrestled Pentagon bureaucrats and each other. They enlisted an initially reluctant Silicon Valley, supercharged the growth of Palantir, and sent algorithms made by Amazon, Microsoft, and others into hot wars. Maven fielded technology to identify targets at speed and scale, developed AI-infused command systems, and learned where AI fails. The prospect of machines making independent decisions about life and death alarmed members of the military across all ranks and the project sparked a revolt among thousands of tech workers at Google. Yet today, Maven's AI-enabled systems operate in every branch of the US military, and its lessons are folded into developing autonomous technology set to be on the front lines of future war." -- Book jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781324123323 |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| Genre/form | Documents d'information. |
| ISBN | 9781324123316 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1324123311 (hardcover) |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000340695 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | New Books | UG479 .M36 2026 | ✔ Available | Want This? |