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throwaw12 • yesterday at 4:26 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

> rockets, F-35s, Typhoons, Rafales', Gripens, jet turbines

these are actual weapons, does anyone use GPUs to kill humans?


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serf • yesterday at 6:02 PM

Yep.[0]

US congresspersons and international media outlets condemned the use of AI warfare against Iran, including the Department of Defense's (DoD) Project Maven—a target tagging system integrating elements of Palantir's Maven Smart System and Anthropic's Claude large language model.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack

AnimalMuppet • yesterday at 4:29 PM

They can be part of the "kill chain", yes.

stasomatic • yesterday at 4:39 PM

There was the kerfuffle with Dario Amodei and Pete Hegseth, who declared Anthropic a supply chain risk to the US. IMO, yes. Killer robots don't run on one 5090 :)

There is more spelunking to that situation, but that's a different thread.