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> Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, was reportedly used by the US military in the barrage of strikes as the technology “shortens the kill chain” – meaning the process of target identification through to legal approval and strike launch.

> “The AI machine is making recommendations for what to target, which is actually much quicker in some ways than the speed of thought,” said Craig Jones, a senior lecturer in political geography at Newcastle University and an expert in kill chains. “So you’ve got scale and you’ve got speed, you’re [carrying out the] assassination-style strikes at the same time as you’re decapitating the regime’s ability to respond with all the aerial ballistic missiles. That might have taken days or weeks in historic wars. [Now] you’re doing everything at once.”

sph•2h ago

Didn’t Anthropic make a big fuss about allowing Claude to be used by the Pentagon for war purposes?

Sounds like the Department of War didn’t get the memo.

ben_w•1h ago

As did the Pentagon, Hegseth, and Trump about Anthropic saying "no".

throw310822•1h ago

Unfortunately no. They did a big fuss about a small and mostly speculative subset of those uses, while efficiently bombing people abroad is still perfectly within the allowed use. Dario Amodei has made clear he enthusiastically subscribe to the nationalistic, militaristic lie of "defending American democracy against our enemy autocracies".

I wonder if they have trained special versions of Claude without its ethical safeguards? A version of Claude not to averse to killing people when the military chiefs demand it?

siquick•1h ago

Sure sounds like automatic weapons targeting using Anthropic models to me.

However much they try to make us think otherwise, at this point in time there’s not really any “good guys” in the AI race.