The US military used Anthropic’s Claude AI, but after Anthropic refused to remove guardrails against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, the Pentagon cancelled the contract and turned to OpenAI.
“It was very surprising to see the sudden deployment of these tools, especially when I think the larger community does not think that they’re ready for said deployment,” said Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at US policy thinktank, AI Now Institute.
“We’re sort of questioning whether these AI models can be successful in any military settings at all because of how flawed they are,” she told Euronews Next.
Khlaaf said researchers have warned that large language models can produce unreliable or incorrect outputs, raising concerns about how they might perform in high-stakes environments such as military operations.
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