Episode Details

How the Pentagon switched decision making from humans to machines. And what it means for the future that computers now decide who lives and dies.

Punching Upwards, Episode 35 for 10 May 2026

Topics: Politics / War in Iran

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Credits

Thanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vlad A Gouf, Fadi Mansour, Bennet Piater, Eric and Sir Galteran for supporting this podcast financially and therefore making it possible for me to produce it!

See Also

* Punching Upwards 34: Scam Altman

* Punching Upwards 27: LLMs Are a Dead-End

* Punching Upwards 26: Trump Falls Into the Smart Bomb Trap

* Punching Upwards 24: The ELIZA Effect

Sources

* Multi-Domain AI: The Future of Command and Control (CDAO at AIPCon 9), Palantir, 13 March 2026

* New analysis of deadly girls’ school strike in Iran, LiveNow from Fox, 11 March 2026

* Speeding Up the “Kill Chain”: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI, Democracy Now!, 18 March 2026

* Star Trek (The Original Series), Season 1, Episode 23: A Taste of Armageddon, Wikipedia

* AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying, 26 March 2026

* The AI War on Iran: Project Maven, a Secretive Palantir-Run System, Helps Pentagon Pick Bomb Targets, Democracy Now!, 31 March 2026

* Old intelligence and AI? Behind the deadly attack on an Iranian girls’ school that left 175 dead, The Independent, 12 March 2026

* Deadly strike on Iranian primary school raises questions about AI, accountability, South China Morning Post, 13 March 2026

* The Algorithm of War: How Palantir and Anthropic Became Co-Belligerents in America’s Iran Campaign, Hilal Ahmad Khan, 12 March 2026

* The Alignment Paradox: Claude AI and the Minab School Strike, Reddit, 8 Ma