Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than 'speed of thought'

saeedesmaili

> Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, was reportedly used by the US military in the barrage of strikes as the technology “shortens the kill chain” – meaning the process of target identification through to legal approval and strike launch. > “The AI machine is making recommendations for what to target, which is actually much quicker in some ways than the speed of thought,” said Craig Jones, a senior lecturer in political geography at Newcastle University and an expert in kill chains. “So you’ve got scale and you’ve got speed, you’re [carrying out the] assassination-style strikes at the same time as you’re decapitating the regime’s ability to respond with all the aerial ballistic missiles. That might have taken days or weeks in historic wars. [Now] you’re doing everything at once.”

sph

Didn’t Anthropic make a big fuss about allowing Claude to be used by the Pentagon for war purposes? Sounds like the Department of War didn’t get the memo.

siquick

Sure sounds like automatic weapons targeting using Anthropic models to me. However much they try to make us think otherwise, at this point in time there’s not really any “good guys” in the AI race.