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by simonw 28 days ago
It doesn't specify which "AI" though.

These days that pretty much means "somebody used a computer".

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The first link is a reader letter to a piece they published. The original piece is the second link in my comment. It has more information

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/ma...

> The paradigm shift has already begun. Despite the row, Anthropic’s Claude has reportedly facilitated the massive and intensifying offensive which has already killed an estimated thousand-plus civilians in Iran. This is an era of bombing “quicker than the speed of thought”, experts told the Guardian this week, with AI identifying and prioritising targets, recommending weaponry and evaluating legal grounds for a strike.

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/iran-war-...

“US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes”

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-anthropi...

It cites the WSJ but that article is paywalled so I shared this one

This later story suggested it was Palantir's Maven, not Anthropic's Claude: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...
Maven is not an LLM. Maven is software that uses LLMs. Mostly notably Claude