Tuesday 10/March/2026 – 10:52 PM
Exciting details have been revealed about the dominant role he plays artificial intelligence In the current conflict, although the war in Iran is not the first to witness the use of these technologies, it is undoubtedly the first battle in which artificial intelligence appears to be the actual leader running the scene.
Epic fury… and incredible speed
According to a Tech Brew report, on the first day of Operation Epic Fury, the United States bombed about 900 sites across Iran. The technology that enabled this destructive pace and scale was the Maven Smart System, designed by Palantir and powered by the Claude AI engine.
The report revealed that the Pentagon had classified CLOUD developer Anthropic as a supply chain risk because it refused to give the military carte blanche to use its system, which prompted the company to recently sue the Pentagon.
Although the Maven system does not fire the weapons itself, it processes vast amounts of data, such as satellite images and drone footage, to create a list of prioritized targets that goes directly to a military commander’s desk.
The report added that to imagine the scale of development in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, this process of setting targets required a team of 2,000 intelligence analysts, but today in Iran, artificial intelligence has reduced this number to only about 20 people, and the role of the system is not limited to planning, but experts confirm that it matches military units with specific tasks in a way that is very similar to how the Uber application matches passengers with drivers.
The Tech Brew report showed that among the targets bombed on the first day of the Epic Rage was a girls’ primary school, killing at least 175 people, and a preliminary assessment concluded that the US military was likely responsible for the disaster, although it is not yet clear the extent of the role that artificial intelligence played in choosing this civilian target.
From Gaza to Iran… the decline of human supervision
The report considered that artificial intelligence is not new to the battlefields. In Ukraine, it was used to direct drones, and in Gaza, Israel used multiple systems, one of which could generate up to 100 targets per day.
The most prominent of these systems is the Lavender program, which has been subjected to severe criticism due to the lack of human supervision, as the Israeli war machine treats its outputs as if they were human decisions, to the point that Israeli officers admitted to +972 magazine that they only spend about 20 seconds reviewing the program’s recommendations, and these seconds are often consumed in confirming whether the target is male or not.
Machine errors and cognitive dumping
According to the BBC, the increasing reliance on artificial intelligence comes despite its shaky accuracy. According to US Army tests until 2024, the Maven system correctly identified objects such as not confusing a truck with a tree by only 60%, while the accuracy of human analysts at that time was about 84%.
Researchers have warned of so-called cognitive offloading, which occurs when military officials shift too much of the decision-making process to algorithms. Experts say that when artificial intelligence takes over analytical work for an extended period, human operators become less able to detect its errors.
