Palantir Got the Pentagon Contract. Now Everyone Wants to Know Who's Liable.

When the Pentagon formally made Maven a program of record, the defense acquisition community read it as a budget story — long-term commitment, stable contracting, vendor security. The AI safety community read it as something else entirely: the moment when the question of whether to use AI in weapons targeting was replaced by the question of what happens when it fails. Those two readings have not converged, and the gap between them is where the liability problem lives.