Houthis used Anthropic to develop guided weapons

Alien1Being 37 points 16 comments September 11, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (7 comments)

dnemmers

More evidence that AI can be quite useful!

kelseyfrog

AI is just a next word predictor. It cannot understand the development of guided weapons as it's not conscious.

ChrisArchitect

[dupe] Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647300

glaslong

Back In My Day, you had to mod a PlayStation if you wanted to DIY a missile guidance system /s

skavi

Houthis use engineering and education to develop guided weapons

naveen99

And the democrats expect us to believe Iran is not a puppet government of the United States. I mean Iran, Houthis, even Russia is using Claude… after pentagon pretended to ban Anthropic from the military…

atarian

I wouldn’t be surprised if Iran’s strategy to shut down the Strait of Hormuz was ideated by AI.

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