Here's an article from 2 months ago for example: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/ma...
It was also implicated in the bombing of a girls elementary school which left 168 dead. The US did a "triple tap" to kill any first responders.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/dont-blam...
> Neither Claude nor any other LLMs detects targets, processes radar, fuses sensor data or pairs weapons to targets. LLMs are late additions to Palantir’s ecosystem. In late 2024, years after the core system was operational, Palantir added an LLM layer – this is where Claude sits – that lets analysts search and summarise intelligence reports in plain English
There’s a lot of humans in that loop who make those decisions.
And while there are still humans in the loop, the impression I get is that this is increasingly becoming meaningless, from the way they talk about optimizing the "kill chain" and letting small teams make hundreds of targeting decisions per hour.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-anthropi...
> AI is ‘identifying and prioritising targets, recommending weaponry and evaluating legal grounds for a strike’.
These days that pretty much means "somebody used a computer".
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-anthropi...
It cites the WSJ but that article is paywalled so I shared this one
if you kill somebody while trying to render a pelican on a bicycle it's a real problem.
Depending on the how pelicans are created, it is entirely possible to indirectly kill "somebody" due to the externalised costs of global warming etc.
Software engineers who never cared about the higher level product design aspect are finding themselves in the wrong industry. It’s dismal.