Mother Jones contextualizes AI warmaking absent from "AI safety" discourse
3Sep 17 · 6d ago · 3 articles · 15 posts · 4 sources · development 3 of 3
Sophie Hurwitz's article frames the use of AI systems in Iran strikes as evidence that AI safety debates overlook weaponized AI and its actual human casualties, linking the public fear of AI existential risk to the unreported reality of AI-assisted military operations.
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“enabled U.S. forces to deploy over 2,000 munitions to 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury”
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The US-Israel war on Iran represents an unprecedented application of AI in warfare. The Pentagon’s Maven Smart System uses Anthropic’s Claude AI to “semi-autonomously rank targets by strategic importance, drafting automated legal justifications for each strike along the way."
Hey, so about that # AI going to kill us all thing...while # agentic AI is mob of authorized crackers and should be stopped...it's what the war machines are doing with it that is the real concern. Have you seen # Palestine ? That's what AI targeting looks like in the field. Nothing left standing. In January of this year, Pete Hegseth released a…
The US-Israel war on Iran is not only the least popular war the United States has ever waged, but also represents an unprecedented application of AI in warfare. The Pentagon’s Maven Smart System, built by Palantir, also uses Anthropic’s Claude AI to “semi-autonomously rank targets by strategic importance, drafting automated legal justifications…
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Pete Hegseth Secretary of DefenseJonathan Guyer Survey co-author, Institute for Global AffairsSophie Hurwitz Journalist, Mother JonesM
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