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BTW, this deal went south when Anthropic argued that AI systems should never make kill decisions without meaningful human oversight.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/anthropic-pe...

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We deserve to know if Claude was involved with targeting the girls’ school that was bombed in the first hours of the attack on Iran. 50-100+ girls are reported to have been killed.

Claude is integrated into Palantir’s Project Maven targeting system. The Pentagon has touted how many more targets they were able to attack with this system (1,000’s).

NY Times: Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-sch...

Reuters now reporting "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children"

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-p...

And nobody else because the geniuses at Reuters thought it was a good idea to make it an exclusive. Also paywalled.

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