Pentagon Used Anthropic’s Claude in Maduro Venezuela Raid
The Wall Street Journal7 days
Anthropic deserves credit for standing firm against Pentagon pressure to remove safeguards preventing autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. The company's limits protect constitutional protections that depend on humans who can disobey illegal orders, and prevent AI from enabling governments to track and correlate every public conversation to target political opposition.
Anthropic's hand-wringing over Pentagon use of Claude ignores reality — AI weaponization is already happening worldwide and the rest of the world didn't sign Silicon Valley's naive peace pacts. Claude proved invaluable in the Maduro raid, and canceling contracts over ideological concerns just handicaps American defense while adversaries forge ahead with dual-use AI technologies.
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