How AI Became the Pentagon's Most Powerful Weapon

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In the opening 24 hours of recent US military strikes, forces hit over 1,000 targets — nearly double the scale of the 2003 'shock and awe' campaign in Iraq. The difference? AI-assisted targeting systems, with Project Maven at the center. What began as a controversial Pentagon-Google experiment has quietly become embedded in live operations, compressing targeting cycles from days to minutes. This is no longer a thought experiment about autonomous weapons — AI-assisted warfare is operational. The harder question isn't whether this makes strikes more precise; it's whether speed and scale fundamentally change the moral calculus of armed conflict. #MilitaryAI #ProjectMaven #AIEthics

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