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Comment by culi

2 days ago

All of them closely collaborate with the government. LLMs are a national security priority and are vetted. Claude AI was used by Palantir's Maven to target the Minab school that led to a triple tap strike killing over 150 schoolchildren.

The Minab disaster has every sign of being a pure humint fail the defense department decided to cover up with politically expedient AI blaming.

  • Claude makes suggestions for targets and humans review and approve them. We always knew there was a human in the process but if there's one massive takeaway from years of AI ethics research, it's that there is a very clear and well-documented human bias towards automated answers when there's any ambiguity.

    Including a human in the loop does not excuse the fact that AI was trusted in a process that decides who lives and dies.