“’Aw Shit’: How One Marine Colonel Forced AI Into America’s Wars, And What Project Maven Reveals About India”, Beats in Brief, July 25, 2026
“Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare. Katrina Manson. W W Norton. 2026.
In 2017 a serving US Marine Corps colonel sat at a desk in his home, watching Netflix with a notepad and pen beside him. Drew Cukor kept rewinding. He studied parts of the same show about eight times over. It was a documentary about a match of Go, the ancient board game invented in China.
The South Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol was playing against AlphaGo, a program built by Google’s DeepMind. Sedol lost four games to one. At one point the machine made a move no human would have played, and the champion’s confidence collapsed on camera……”
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