Palmer Luckey’s company earned a contract for the Pentagon’s Project Maven AI program
Palmer Luckey’s Anduril Industries has won a contract on the Pentagon’s controversial AI program, Project Maven, reports The Intercept. Since founding the company in 2017, Luckey has focused on the defense industry, building advanced systems that could be used for border surveillance.
Project Maven is a controversial artificial intelligence program that uses machine learning to sort through millions of hours of drone footage to help systems distinguish people from their surroundings. The project would help reduce the burden on human analysts and improve the intelligence that’s captured in cameras. The project’s goal is to get better information to military officers, with the idea that with better decisions, there’s less of a change of…
