{"id":9104,"date":"2026-03-02T19:46:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/claude-anthropic-military-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:46:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:46:52","slug":"claude-anthropic-military-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/claude-anthropic-military-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ongoing attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched by a joint coalition of US and Israeli military forces, have so far claimed 555 Iranian lives<\/a>, including 165 deaths from an attack on an elementary school in Southern Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported<\/a> as the attacks unfolded the military strike force had a hand in selecting its targets from Anthropic\u2019s Claude chatbot.<\/p>\n

According to the paper, Anthropic\u2019s large language model, Claude, is the key \u201cAI tool\u201d used by US Central Command in the Middle East. Its tasks include assessing intelligence, simulated war games, and even identifying military targets \u2014 in short, helping military leaders plan attacks that have already claimed hundreds of lives.<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s role in the devastating attacks might come as news for anyone who thought the company\u2019s ethical redlines<\/a> precluded it from any military work whatsoever. The company and its CEO, Dario Amodei, have been roiled in a messy conflict with the Trump administration over two particular moral boundaries: the use of Claude for surveillance of US citizens, and for fully-autonomous, lethal weaponry.<\/p>\n

It appears that using Claude to select targets, though, isn\u2019t brushing up against the bot\u2019s ethical guardrails. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s striking, because Anthropic has spent the latter part of February embroiled in conflict<\/a> with the Pentagon over the use of Claude.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Pentagon \u2014 which currently uses Claude throughout its classified systems \u2014 set a deadline for Anthropic to drop those dual redlines of surveillance and fully autonomous weaponry. Anthropic let that deadline go by<\/a> without caving, establishing what many understood as a principled stance against the Trump administration\u2019s militarism.<\/p>\n

Yet as Pulitzer prize winning national security journalist Spencer Ackerman observed<\/a>, it\u2019s important to note what Anthropic\u2019s ethical lines ignored when it inked its deal with the military in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmodei, it is highly conspicuous, doesn\u2019t register building a surveillance panopticon of\u00a0foreigners\u00a0as a problem,\u201d Ackerman wrote. \u201cThe time to worry about everything ostensibly concerning Amodei was\u00a0before\u00a0signing the contract that Amodei didn\u2019t wish to abandon. America is in such steep decline that we don\u2019t even make Oppenheimers like we used to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you take Doctor Doom\u2019s money to provide him a lathe to construct components for anthropomorphic robots,\u201d Ackerman scathed, \u201cdo you not understand that he is going to build Doombots?\u201d<\/p>\n

More on Claude: <\/strong>Anthropic Drops Its Huge Safety Pledge That Was Supposedly the Whole Point of the Company
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The post US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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