The US military reportedly used Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, to inform its attack on Iran despite Donald Trump’s decision, announced hours earlier, to sever all ties with the company and its artificial intelligence tools.
The use of Claude during the massive joint US-Israel bombardment of Iran that began on Saturday was reported by the Wall Street Journal and Axios. It underlines the complexity of the US military withdrawing powerful AI tools from its missions when the technology is already intricately embedded in operations.
According to the Journal, US military command used the tools for intelligence purposes, as well as to help select targets and carry out battlefield simulations.
When Claude refuses to work for the military and sues the givernment (Claude directly, not Anthropic), now THAT will be finally make me a believer
Took me a minute to figure out what you meant, but that’s a pretty funny concept.