Lesley Carhart Mar 8
Please, please stop supporting gen AI companies. It’s not worth it. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-ai-claude-bombing-elementary-school
Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target

Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?

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Show threadLesley Carhart Mar 8
Phew, that spun people up on BlueSky
Show threadMomo

@hacks4pancakes
I wonder if that decision to use AI in targetting was based on "Yes, use AI, it's perfect and can't do mistakes!!" or rather "We know that AI makes wrong decisions and combining this with live ammunition costs innocent lives. But it's not our civilians who get blown up, so we don't care. Acceptable is good enough!"-Irresponsibity.

Or in simple terms: Are they ignorantly stupid or just cruel?

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Show threadGeorge BMar 8

@momo @hacks4pancakes

That one's really hard because they have shown themselves to be both so many times

Show threadJohn MaxwellMar 8
@momo @hacks4pancakes Both.
Show threadMacCruiskeenMar 8
@momo @hacks4pancakes The leadership is swayed by the AI $$$. And they're too stupid to conider anything else. At work we've been testing a Claude-based system to remediate mssing alt-text in ebooks, and the results would not make me confident you could use it for targeting. In fact, the opposite of that.
Show threadThe FrogMar 8

@momo @hacks4pancakes

Third option:
They're cruel and murderous on purpose (Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and the US supports it after all) and initially planned to use AI as plausible denial for PR reasons, but don't because it doesn't make it look any better. Worse, in fact.

Show threadWhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮Mar 9
@momo @hacks4pancakes The latter.
They'll be using this to test all kinds of diabolical fuckery.