Helsing shows Clarity, an AI platform that prepares military targets

Helsing, a German defense company, showed Clarity in Berlin on Wednesday. Clarity is software with hundreds of AI agents. They connect sensor data and reports, find military forces and prepare target data for a weapons system. Helsing tells that a human must give approval for each handoff, and that each decision has the name of the person who approved it.

How it works

Clarity operates on the infrastructure of the customer. Helsing tells that it recommends a target only when two or more sources agree and confidence is high. Helsing tells that the platform follows NATO standards and connects to weapons from all makers. The Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, has a plan to start AI systems next year.

The record elsewhere

The Wall Street Journal reports that the US military used Maven of Palantir with Claude of Anthropic to recommend targets in the Iran war. Investigations by +972 Magazine and Local Call found that human inspection in Gaza frequently was about 20 seconds. CNN reports that an incorrect chatbot report almost caused the US military to go onto a Chinese ship in 2026.

What is not known

Helsing did not tell if Clarity operates with a customer. It gave no test results.

Insight: A name on the record is not time to inspect

Helsing has a plan for a name with each decision. The investigations of Gaza tell of about 20 seconds of inspection. On 9 November, Space and Time showed a tool to prove that a data query was correct. This reads as a market where proof of approval is easy to supply, but proof of careful inspection is not. Buyers can tell the vendor to give records of inspection time.