For decades we have been hearing about the possibility of AI driven warfare. Now it’s here. Anthropic’s AI Platform Claude has reportedly been central to American Israel’s war on Iran. Within the first 12 hours, there were more than 900 strikes, including one that killed the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini. An airstrike on a girls elementary school killed at least 165 people, mostly students. Today we’re talking about AI military capabilities, how companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have become, or are on their way to becoming deeply enmeshed in the military. And what happens when these companies and governments start building systems that help decide who lives and who dies in a war. I’m joined today by Heidy Khlaaf. She is the chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute and an expert on AI safety within defence and national security, including in autonomous weapons systems. And she previously worked at OpenAI.
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