2026-03-01
Genuine question for people who might have a better grasp on how Claude is being used by the military than I do: WSJ says Claude was used for “target identification.” Is it possible that the bombing of the girls' school that left nearly 150 dead was an AI error or hallucination?
Wall Street Journal
Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump declared that the federal government will end its use of Anthropic's tools
Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic …
Genuine question for people who might have a better grasp on how Claude is being used by the military than I do: WSJ says Claude was used for “target identification.” Is it possible that the bombing of the girls' school that left nearly 150 dead was an AI error or hallucination?
The Atlantic
Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans
Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …
2025-03-23
I call this rhetorical move The Jordan Peterson: where you take a sensible position that is straightforwardly good advice ("stand up straight and look people in the eye") and justify it through a completely unhinged explanatory framework ("because lobster mating rituals").
NBC News
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praises cell phone restrictions in schools, saying their electromagnetic radiation causes neurological and cellular damage
Aria Bendix / NBC News :