Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare

The dramatic story of the secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver America into the age of AI warfare.

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...