Modern military, whether in the US or other nations, uses artificial intelligence. Of course they do. Anthropic has a $200 million contract to supply their AI system, called Claude, to be used by the Pentagon "for all lawful purposes."
Anthropic has conditions on how the US military will use it. They will not allow it, they say, to be used for mass surveillance of American citizens, nor for weapon targeting without direct human supervision. These restrictions sound reasonable.
But the Dept. of Defense threatens to reject Claude from military use.
They say that "the current dispute is not specifically about autonomous weapons or mass surveillance . . ."
It seems that Anthropic (photo) wants the final call in whether their AI system can be used in certain situations. But the US military refuses to delegate their decisions to another authority, such as a private company. That also sounds reasonable. The responsibility to operate lawfully, they say, is theirs--not Anthropic's.
Interesting.
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