c/technology@lemmy.world · themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 Sep 2026 21:09

Users in Houthi-held Yemen tried to develop advanced weapons with AI, Anthropic says

Yahoo Finance Users in Houthi-held Yemen tried to develop advanced weapons with AI, Anthropic says BEIRUT (AP) — Anthropic says Claude users in northern Yemen, territory controlled by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, tried to use the AI model to develop advanced missiles.

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• [–] @schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 11 Sep 2026

  Same Anthropic:

  In a June 2026 Bloomberg interview about Claude’s reported role in U.S. military targeting systems, Amodei said Anthropic did not know whether Claude had been used in connection with the Minab school strike, but that, if it had, the use case would not violate Anthropic’s red lines.[35][36] The exchange concerned the 2026 Minab school strike, which Amnesty International described as an unlawful U.S. strike that killed 156 people, including 120 children, and which Human Rights Watch said should be investigated as a war crime.[37][38]

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• [–] @lithiumground@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

  Why didn’t they use open source models 😂

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  • [–] @Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 Sep 2026

    Few potential reasons, the most likely being a lack of access to the amount of compute, electricity, and knowhow.

    Or they wanted to use the “mainstream option” idk

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    • [–] @lithiumground@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

      Yeah, and it is free(in a money context) and straightforward to use

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• [–] @yesman@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

  Our technology isn’t capable of understanding advanced missile tech, it’s only good for deciding who gets killed with advanced missile tech.

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• [–] @Sims@lemmy.ml · 11 Sep 2026

  Anthropic is turning out to be an eager volunteer voice for the most harmful Fascist Empire in human history. Boycott those Uckers and everyone working for, or associated with them…

  If you have used their product and it doesn’t contain any private identifiable info, then share the whole session-log/thinking to the netz ! F’ the Fascist Dario pig…

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