alt Hacker News> Someone who until yesterday did not seem bothered by his technology being possibly used to bomb elementary girls school in another country...
I might have missed something but wasn't the big story that Dario refused the Department of War's demand to use Anthropic's models for such purposes?
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No. He refused the use against US citizens domestically. He had already agreed for military use against others - this is well reported.
He was directly asked in a Bloomberg interview whether Claude was used in the bombing of the girl’s school in Iran, and his answer was “We don’t know”.
His redline was autonomous weapons, not the death of 100 innocent girls.
No, only for domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. It can be used to evaluate targets as long as a human pulls the trigger. But the DoD created a really strange position for itself, they use Claude, but also designed it as a supply chain threat, which should mean they cannot use it
No, he refused the DoW demand to use Anthropic models without limits. But Anthropic still agreed to military usage of their models, including for strike planning.
“We are also left with no further information about the potential use of artificial intelligence in the targeting decision. The CEO of Anthropic admitted in an interview with Bloomberg that he does not know if or how their artificial intelligence software may have been used to select targets for U. S. attacks in Iran, but he was quick to shift blame to the military, in particular to an unnamed ‘human’ making final targeting decisions.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/06/usa-four-mont...
Palantir's Maven system integrates LLM models in decision making for identifying targets. It was using Claude when it identified targets in Iran, including the Minab elementary school
> Two sources confirmed to NBC News that Palantir’s AI systems, which draw in part on large language model technology, were used to identify targets. (Palantir’s CEO, Alex Karp, said he “can’t go into specifics” when asked about this on CNBC, but said that Claude was still integrated into Palantir’s systems used in the Iran war.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/...