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Open in hackernews

Claude AI Helped Bomb Iran. But How Exactly?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-04/iran-strikes-anthropic-claude-ai-helped-us-attack-but-how-exactly
19•helsinkiandrew•2h ago

Comments

rwmj•1h ago
https://archive.ph/HELuu
rramadass•1h ago
False insinuation.

It is actually Palantir using Claude AI in its "Maven Smart System" for real-time battlefield analysis which is being used by the US Military.

More details at - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275936

Also see Palantir’s Double Conflict of Interest in the War Against Iran - https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/palantirs-double-conflict...

helsinkiandrew•1h ago
But they did use Claude AI. Several commentators (eg Michael Burry ) have claimed that Palantir could have difficulty switching AI engines easily.
rramadass•1h ago
As is pointed out in my links, they are using Palantir's solution which Palantir has built around Claude AI (including custom agents/chatbots/etc.)

After Trump's tantrum with Anthropic, no doubt Palantir will be switching to OpenAI based models/agents/chatbots.

From the pov of data analysis and inference, they should be comparable though Anthropic's AI predictions _might_ be better than OpenAI's (maybe the reason why Palantir chose them in the first place).

luke-stanley•1h ago
Should we really buy the many months of switching difficulty argument? Surely the main API surface is a HTTP API like ChatCompletions? If it's the exact shape of Anthropic's API, the difference is surely minor. There are likely up to 2 API surfaces, that's it. If the OpenAI model APIs are more flexible (esp. with the new 1M context of GPT-5.4), then it should have little difficulty adapting. Then there is LiteLLM and similar that make it even easier, half of their tooling should be using something that abstracts like that anyway. Yes it needs evals and prompt engineering work to optimise it, but they should be used to that by now. Presumably they could even clean-room fine-tune an OpenAI model to match the same Claude shape with low loss. So I don't buy it.
helsinkiandrew•6m ago
It’s not the syntax of the API that’s the issue, it’s the behaviour and performance of the model. You can create code, images, and video with just about any model, but there’s reasons people prefer Claude Code or Sora for particular tasks
redbell•1h ago
The irony is how quickly we had shifted from AI will help in curing cancer and other diseases to using AI to destroy and kill our enemies. What weird times to be alive!
bamboozled•1h ago
So weird right?
iddan•56m ago
It’s almost like both are goals for self preservation
Intralexical•43m ago
Magical thinking is rarely constructive as an argument, but as a fig leaf, it might keep opposition talking for long enough to force through a fait accompli.
renewiltord•1h ago
In some sense, every American taxpayer helped bomb Iran. It's important to remember that there is a lot of evidence that contributing to crime makes you also an accomplice and that funding violence is tantamount to performing it oneself.
idiotsecant•55m ago
Absolutely. That is the problem with war and capital punishment. I don't take sufficiently strong action (rebellion, etc) to do my utmost to stop it, and am therefore complicit and receive a fractional share of the moral bounty of every life snuffed out unjustly.

The fact that either exists is testimony to the banal evil that exists in us all.

aurareturn•1h ago
AI data centers will definitely be targeted in advanced warfare.
rramadass•1h ago
They already are first-level targets in modern cyber and kinetic warfare.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm•1h ago
I truly believe they are all psychopaths and the rest of it is theatre for the masses. A good guy vs bad guy narrative is easy to sell and distracts people from the fact that human life is not valued by any of them.
mschuster91•1h ago
> A good guy vs bad guy narrative is easy to sell and distracts people from the fact that human life is not valued by any of them.

Iran slaughtered 30k people in a matter of days for the crime of "protesting". No tears shed for the Mullahs here, IMHO Israel and the US are doing the world a service here by finally cleaning up the last terrorist regime keeping the region in a constant state of aggression. Note that before and after Oct 7th, it only was Iranian backed forces stirring shit (Houthis, Hezbollah, Gaza's Hamas), while everyone else stayed put.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm•1h ago
Meanwhile the US is lifting sanctions on Russian oil while Russia bombs Ukraine. Turns out peace or democracy is not what they care about, it is regional dominance for Israel.
bamboozled•1h ago
What has blown my mind is how surprised people seem to be by all of this, it's like, they never imagined these people were capable of doing this...remember when it was "just jokes..." ?
bamboozled•1h ago
Agree, people pick sides but all these despots suck. Innocent children and the peasants pay the highest price.
statuslover9000•1h ago
Claude may have just bombed an elementary school, meanwhile Dario is whining that Altman and Trump, two well-known psychos, didn’t play fair for a military deal. Anthropic is the last bastion of the sanctimonious neolib and hopefully this war marks the end of that failing ideology.
rramadass•1h ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286420
statuslover9000•1h ago
Anthropic did the deal with Palantir and was begging the government to use their technology to “fight authoritarianism”, are you insinuating that they shouldn’t be held morally accountable for these business decisions?
bamboozled•1h ago
"You're right, my fears about potentially starting WW3, millions of innocent people being killed and crashing the global economy were over blown...Now I have all the details, I think your plan sounds wonderful! Should we go ahead with that military operation right away?"
kleiba•1h ago
Quick reminder of the "Slaughterbots" video from 9(!) years ago, when the content was still sci-fi. Well, we're catching up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9lVwHHqg