How America Built an AI Kill Chain (with Katrina Manson)
Podcast:The Rip Current Published On: Fri Apr 17 2026 Description: This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theripcurrent.comJournalist Katrina Manson spent years inside the classified and not-so-classified world of U.S. military AI — interviewing the colonels, the defense tech founders, and the ethicists watching it all unfold. Her book, Project Maven, is the definitive account of how Silicon Valley's "ship it and fix it later" culture collided with the business of war. We t…