Katrina Manson

Katrina Manson, Bloomberg reporter and author of Project Maven, explores the Pentagon’s secret push to field AI in warfare. She recounts Project Maven’s origins, early technical stumbles and life-saving successes. She examines culture clashes inside the military, the ethics fights including tech worker protests, and how AI is reshaping targeting and escalation risks.

Katrina Manson, Bloomberg journalist and author of Project Maven, digs into the rise of AI in modern warfare. She traces how an AI targeting system was built and deployed, explains failures from bad data to rapid fixes, and explores escalation risks, classified-cloud politics, and why international regulation is lagging.

Katrina Manson, Bloomberg journalist and author of Project Maven, walks through the rise of AI in modern warfare. She recounts Project Maven’s origins, industry pullback and Pentagon politics. She explains how Maven evolved to aid Ukraine, sped targeting, and later supported CENTCOM in the Iran conflict, including the role of LLMs in accelerating targeting workflows.

Katrina Manson, Bloomberg reporter and author of Project Maven, is a tech and national security journalist who covered AI’s leap into combat. She discusses the Pentagon’s rush to deploy AI, how industry players like Palantir and cloud firms got involved, early battlefield uses such as Kabul, mistakes and limits of algorithms, and the broader risks of AI-driven targeting and escalation.

Mike Shepard, Bloomberg senior editor reporting on the Pentagon-AI split; Katrina Manson, national security reporter and author of Project Maven. They unpack the Anthropic-Pentagon breakup, the rapid push to embed commercial AI in warfighting, ethics and shrinking human oversight in targeting, autonomy test failures, and congressional moves to set limits.