Anthropic CEO Doesn’t Know If Claude Used in Iran School Strike

Anthropic PBC’s boss said he doesn’t know what role his artificial intelligence model played in a missile strike that killed an estimated 120 children at an elementary school in Iran, reflecting a broader knowledge gap for AI executives who are increasingly selling advanced AI tools to the US military.

But he said the use case in this instance didn’t violate the company’s policies, arguing military decision makers make terrible mistakes even at the best of times.

“Look, we don’t have access to, we don’t know exactly how these models were used,” Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO and cofounder told ...