CSET’s Emelia Probasco shared her expert perspective in an article published by DefenseScoop. The article examines the Pentagon’s decision to make the Maven Smart System (MSS) a formal program of record and its implications for U.S. military AI and command-and-control capabilities.
MSS is a great potential tool, but it comes with some really gnarly questions. And I think we’re starting to wander i...
The strongest version of this narrative positions the Maven Smart System as a necessary evolution in military AI, acknowledging its strategic value while responsibly flagging the need for oversight. Probasco’s framing avoids alarmism but clearly signals that MSS’s advancement into a formal program of record crosses a threshold where technical development intersects with policy and ethics. This is a credit to the analysis—it doesn’t dismiss the tool’s potential nor does it indulge in doomsaying. ...