Huge congrats to Katrina for her book release! Snag a copy of "Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare": https://jh.live/project-maven

Learn Cybersecurity and more with Just Hacking Training: https://jh.live/training
See what else I'm up to with: https://jh.live/newsletter

ℹ️ Resources:
See what cybersecurity events are happening: https://jh.live/infosecmap
Learn how to code with CodeCrafters: https://jh.live/codecrafters
Host your own VPN with OpenVPN: https://jh.live/openvpn
Get Blue Team Training and SOC Analyst Certifications with CyberDefenders: https://jh.live/cyberdefense

John Hammond

Journalist Katrina Manson discusses her book on Project Maven, the Pentagon's AI warfare initiative. The conversation covers the history of AI-assisted drone video analysis, the role of companies like Palantir, Microsoft, and AWS in developing computer vision algorithms, and the limitations of early AI systems that couldn't distinguish between men, women, and children. It explores how LLMs like Claude are now integrated into Maven Smart System to speed up targeting processes, the use of AI in real operations including the Baghdadi raid and strikes in Iraq/Syria, and the ethical and technical risks of moving toward autonomous lethal systems. The book examines tensions between those pushing for AI warfare and those opposing it, with the cutting-edge question being whether AI on drones will ever achieve reliable automatic target recognition.

The Dawn of AI Warfare (with Katrina Manson)