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Autonomous weapons systems, AI-guided targeting, drone warfare, military AI procurement, and the international debate over lethal autonomous systems — where artificial intelligence meets the machinery of war.
Anthropic refused Pentagon demands, got blacklisted as a national security risk, and then watched its AI get used in the Iran strikes anyway — the refusal was irrelevant.
Maven's surge during Operation Epic Fury made AI targeting doctrine obsolete before Congress finished debating it.
Six hundred Google employees petitioned against a Pentagon AI deal. It was signed before they finished. Anthropic's quiet restraint is now the visible alternative.
Google's classified Pentagon AI contract, signed over the objections of 600-plus employees, has exposed how completely internal dissent has lost its institutional force at the company.
Anthropic's refusal to remove AI safeguards for Pentagon weapons use handed OpenAI a contract opening it took immediately, setting the new industry floor.