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Speeding Up the “Kill Chain”: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI

2026-03-18 News & Politics
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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran continues, we look at how the Pentagon is using artificial intelligence in its operations. The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon. Craig Jones, an expert on modern warfare, says AI technology is helping militaries speed up the “kill chain,” the process of identifying, approving and striking targets. “You’re reducing a massive human workload of tens of thousands of hours into seconds and minutes. You’re reducing workflows, and you’re automating human-made targeting decisions in ways which open up all kinds of problematic legal, ethical and political questions,” says Jones. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

Top Comments (10)

@synclavier5405 2026-03-18

The Palantir CEO is an absolute psychopath. He needs to be added to the War Criminals list

577 42 replies
@MinShen-i1e 2026-03-18

Ordinary people pay with their lives for the mistakes made by dirty politicians

453 29 replies
@jerrybriardy 2026-03-18

"Humans will always make the final decison what to shoot and not to shoot." - So he admits killing the little girls was a war crime.

339 17 replies
@jediTempleGuard 2026-03-18

Remembering the schoolgirls, it seems their AI is nothing but garbage.

304 40 replies
@angelatanurdzic7508 2026-03-18

The illegal war must be stopped.

215 6 replies
@wasp.watcher 2026-03-18

The fact that they waited for first responders and parents to arrive before double tapping kind of puts the lie to this entire framing.

186 12 replies
@adinahaun6001 2026-03-18

Remember’Daddy’s Home’ to kill entire families in Gaza? So sick and I’m appalled our tax money pays for these atrocities!

164 10 replies
@jayse1834 2026-03-18

There was NO oversight ! They just made the decision to bomb the entire area .

118 6 replies
@hollygolightly7912 2026-03-18

We are in a timeline where we have absolutely no regard or care for human life.

68 10 replies
@gdj-k012 2026-03-18

The Palantir CEO would tell you those girls would ruin the fabric of society if it meant he'd make another buck and he thought he could get away with it.

64 2 replies

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