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Re:Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdow... by felixgallo on Sunday June 14, 2026 @04:22PM (#48532221)
They literally do -- see above, where the red line they refused to cross involved fully autonomous kill bots (which would be a war crime), and for which they were branded a supply chain risk, thrown out of Pentagon contracts, and now enjoined from releasing their product.

You can not like that Claude was involved in the planning that led to the murder of a bunch of schoolgirls, but stop playing pretend.

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Re:Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdow... by noelsusman on Sunday June 14, 2026 @06:47PM (#48533783)
It's just a fact that Claude has already been used to commit war crimes and Anthropic has had zero issue with it. I don't know what else there is to say about it.

Also, not that it really matters but building a fully autonomous kill bot is not actually a war crime.

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Re:Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdow... by felixgallo on Monday June 15, 2026 @09:10AM (#48540745)
Claude has been involved in the planning of a war crime, for sure. But 'Anthropic has had zero issue with it' is an unfounded assertion that you are making up.

Fielding a fully autonomous kill bot is absolutely a war crime under the IHL; specifically, there is no current universe under which a bot can reliably tell a combatant from a non-combatant, or a civilian target from a military target, or act in a proportional manner.

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