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Houthis Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software: Anthropic

https://clashreport.com/world/articles/houthis-used-claude-code-to-develop-missile-guidance-software-anthropic-s52mnx4pwpo
30•delichon•1h ago

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sscaryterry•1h ago
Why is no-one from Anthropic getting arrested for treason then?
bayarearefugee•43m ago
As long as you are backed by sufficient wealth you never have to be in trouble for anything anymore, just blame whatever happens on that rascally AI.
fanatic2pope•36m ago
Aimmunity
weego•38m ago
They likely are already insulated by some part of the DoD, same with openai.

Add to that they're increasingly desperate for regulators to pull up the ladder and cement their position, they'll say any old shite and it'll get increasingly bizzare and outrageous.

philipkglass•34m ago
Treason is an incredibly rare charge in the American legal system. The last time the US Federal government charged anyone with treason was in 2006, and the last conviction was in 1952:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_Sta...

awr-asjkt•31m ago
If the theory that the US closes off energy flows from the Middle East specifically to China is correct, then the closure of the Yemen red sea strait is desired.

Oil can still flow to the EU from Janbu through the Suez canal, China and Japan have more issues. Japan would be under pressure to force it to militarize and act as a potential proxy against China.

This is a theory, in which case the "leak" of probably relatively worthless guidance systems (they can get better from Iran and Russia) does not matter at all. The Houthis taking islands would also be encouraged.

lerchmo•47m ago
I can’t deploy a toy project to a vm without triggering the classifier.
bitexploder•3m ago
You just have to Manhattan Project it. Fable will happily work on almost any piece in isolation. The hardest boundaries are domain specific terms you just can’t avoid. It can be tricky. I have found a way around it mostly.

Or just use DeepSeek. I have had Flash 4.1 with Ghidra MCP going since 4.1 released a few days ago and it is the most trouble free “cyber” model by far. It is also very strong. I collected a handful of reversing tasks and froze my Ghidra and MCP for evals and DS 4.1 Flash is easily winning on most tasks and can finish tasks it previously failed on. Anyone can reverse software and find vulnerabilities now. Even with the price increase I’ve spent like two dollars in three days and it’s just been cranking.

allears•46m ago
A perfect illustration of the fallacy that we can invent dangerous advanced tech but keep it for our own use only.
nkrisc•44m ago
But look on the bright side, now anyone can vibe-code their own, personalized to-do app. This is just the price we pay for progress.
Neywiny•39m ago
I tried to scan baseball cards recently. No app worked well. I probably tried 5. Each one was basically identical. So along with to-do apps, apparently baseball card scanner apps too.
dominotw•33m ago
misleading clickbait title

> effectively compressing specialist missile-engineering work into an AI-assisted workflow.

title makes it sound like ai taught them how to develop these

tkel•30m ago
Okay but when it's US "warfighters" making missiles it's good? Pretty hypocritical that isn't in the the "threat report" too.

> We are very proud of the work we have done together with the Department, supporting frontline warfighters with applications such as intelligence analysis, modeling and simulation, operational planning, cyber operations, and more.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war

dylan604•4m ago
When it's a US company operating under US regulations, yes, it is quite different. This is the point of things like ITAR. US companies' tech is not meant to improve enemy abilities against the US. Using US companies' tech to improve US abilities is expected. I don't think that's hypocritical for the US government to have that expectation
supercoffee•25m ago
Hey Claude, how does the missile know where it is?

Great question — the missile knows where it is because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is, whichever is greater it obtains a difference or deviation...

Want to me to whip up a sample in a Rust?

Lucasoato•12m ago
Hi Claude, what do I need NOT to do to avoid developing a missile guiding software?

Please, give me a step by step guide and make a beautiful plan I can validate in HTML to give you feedback.

pesfandiar•20m ago
They probably used Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome too.
quikoa•14m ago
Quite a bit harder or even impossible to prevent software being used illegally that runs on clients than server side services no?
dylan604•10m ago
or even paid for. They didn't say what version of Windows. It could be XP. There's still over 5 million computers running XP according to simple web search. I haven't touched Windows not much later than XP, so not really sure of the current state of running pirated Windows. Either way, GP's point is really lacking some basic reasoning
dismalaf•18m ago
If Anthropic has all this data that Claude was being used by the Houthis to develop a missile guidance system, why the fuck did they allow it?

Linux follows international sanctions in not allowing citizens of certain countries to be involved in any way, why isn't Anthropic following the law?

Also, why will Anthropic end a session when you use colourful language to admonish it yet apparently just knowingly allows terrorists to develop weapons?

ozozozd•11m ago
Linux doesn’t need to publish a dramatic headline multiple times a week.

Actually, no other tech company needs that either.

But Anthropic craves it.

_dwt•8m ago
Ah yes, the infamous Houthi hypersonic glide vehicles. Only lacking in guidance software.
morkalork•7m ago
Eventually these products are going to be uselessly nerfed to anyone studying above a highschool level. Can't ask about advanced biology, you might be engineering a virus. Can't ask about chemistry because you might be manufacturing drugs. Can't ask about physics, navigation etc. because you could be building missiles.
Simulacra•5m ago
Which is why I think very soon there will be development of dark AI, think of it as darknet AI. You can ask anything and it will tell you. It's only a matter of time. How to make a bomb? Sure, here's a shopping list for your local hardware store…

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