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John R. Heckman, Doctoral Candidate, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Brock University

Russian team ‘misused’ Claude AI to train a killer drone on scraped Ukrainian war footage

A new threat intelligence report from the AI company Anthropic has revealed that a Russian team scraped Ukrainian combat videos to train an autonomous “kamikaze” drone to choose its own targets and destroy them.

Anthropic’s report was published on Sept. 10, two days before CEO and co-founder of the company, Dario Amodei, published an essay arguing that humanity must urgently “slow the pace” of AI development.

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