Every year, US tech giant Palantir invites you to AIPCon – a presentation show of its new developments. Cameron Stanley’s appearance caused a particular stir this year. Stanley is head of digital and AI officer in Pete Hegseth’s US War Department.
What Cameron presented made the blood run cold in the veins of many critical observers of AI applications: He showed a so-called “kill chain”. The identification of a target, the evaluation of possible measures and, at the end, the actual use of weapons, everything is regulated with a click of the mouse on the same platform. There is help from various different sensors, data feeds – and from an AI. The whole thing goes under the name Maven Smart System.
The crucial point here is that all work steps are bundled in one interface. “A left click, a right click and a left click magically create a target,” exulted Stanley during his presentation. What used to take hours due to the coordination of various departments can now be implemented significantly more quickly by “today’s decision makers,” continues Stanley: “It took us seven years to link all the data points together like this.”