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applegrove

(131,586 posts)
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 03:45 PM 6 hrs ago

U.S. Strikes Used Anthropic Despite Trump Ban

U.S. Strikes Used Anthropic Despite Trump Ban

March 2, 2026 at 11:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/03/02/u-s-strikes-used-anthropic-despite-trump-ban/


“Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic’s Claude AI tool.”

“The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.”


Applegrove: according to an AI expert on CBC Radio's As It Happens, Claude is by far the best AI tool out there for the military so when Trump does trash it and go with something else it will result it more deaths of US military and civilians on the ground. Even with using Anthropic's Claude AI, a girls' school got destroyed in Iran killing over a hundred young girls. I wonder if they are related?
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U.S. Strikes Used Anthropic Despite Trump Ban (Original Post) applegrove 6 hrs ago OP
Trump wanted 2 things from Anthropic,use it to spy on American citizens &use it to target human's without human oversite Swede 6 hrs ago #1
Trump wanted a lot more from Anthropic. Those two things applegrove 5 hrs ago #2

Swede

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1. Trump wanted 2 things from Anthropic,use it to spy on American citizens &use it to target human's without human oversite
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 03:54 PM
6 hrs ago

Anthropic said no, Grok and ChatGPT did not say no.

applegrove

(131,586 posts)
2. Trump wanted a lot more from Anthropic. Those two things
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 04:37 PM
5 hrs ago

were only the things Anthropic refused to do.

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