What was once a universe-building element in dystopian science fiction is now reportedly driving Pentagon policy.
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AI giant Anthropic is facing potentially disastrous backlash from U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the recently renamed War Dept. over Anthropic’s refusal to allow the Pentagon to use their Claude AI platform in the design or deployment of autonomous AI weapons systems.
Colloquially known as “killer robots” and officially styled LAWS – Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems – the very idea of such systems has been controversial for generations, and the Holy See has been voicing opposition to the development of autonomous weapons systems for more than a decade in various international forums.
