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The way they talk about cyber security fixes makes clear that they are in bed with the government in order to get ahead of Anthropic.

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All of them closely collaborate with the government. LLMs are a national security priority and are vetted. Claude AI was used by Palantir's Maven to target the Minab school that led to a triple tap strike killing over 150 schoolchildren.

The Minab disaster has every sign of being a pure humint fail the defense department decided to cover up with politically expedient AI blaming.

Claude makes suggestions for targets and humans review and approve them. We always knew there was a human in the process but if there's one massive takeaway from years of AI ethics research, it's that there is a very clear and well-documented human bias towards automated answers when there's any ambiguity.

Including a human in the loop does not excuse the fact that AI was trusted in a process that decides who lives and dies.

The DIA's Maven database was out of date: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...

"We triple tapped a girls elementary school because our data wasn't up to date."

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