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2026-02-14 Science & Technology

Pentagon used Claude AI to kidnap Maduro – media

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1 A little AI with your morning coffee.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-14 05:26|| 2026-02-14 05:26|| Front Page Top

2 RETRO-2024
Anthropic and Palantir Partner to Bring Claude AI Models to AWS for U.S. Government Intelligence and Defense Operations

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Anthropic’s recommendations to OSTP for the U.S. AI action plan

Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-14 05:40|| 2026-02-14 05:40|| Front Page Top

3 US used Anthropic's Claude during the Venezuela raid, WSJ reports

What is agentic AI?

A long way from Mission Planning gaming with Solver and simplex min/max constraints.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-14 05:56|| 2026-02-14 05:56|| Front Page Top

4 /\ Amazing. Now if we could just migrate AI's use to something other than the killing fields. For example; modern medicine, medical patient monitoring, animal husbandry, weather, human dietary issues/impacts, and learning.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-02-14 06:12|| 2026-02-14 06:12|| Front Page Top

5 Israel used the "where's Daddy" AI to find and target Hamas in their homes.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2026-02-14 06:48|| 2026-02-14 06:48|| Front Page Top

6 What concerns me about AI is who its master is. Who programmed the AI code? Would I really trust Microsoft? Google? The government?

Posted by DooDahMan 2026-02-14 06:49|| 2026-02-14 06:49|| Front Page Top

7 Even before AI, a simple relationship mapper, 1990s tech, could have enabled the British to easily round up and hang the Founding Fathers.
Peter Theil's Palantir is another level. It is utterly fucking up Antifa right now.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2026-02-14 06:50|| 2026-02-14 06:50|| Front Page Top

8 It already does, ask any AI about the drugs you take and the interactions. Ask it how it works or what time of day is best to take it, before or after food, etc. The problem is you're revealing your medical history to some company who will use it against you by selling it.
They totally promise they'll anonymize it.
If you've got a condition obviously they won't insure you for that condition, it's called a moral hazard. "Oh, I'll freeride and not buy insurance until I get sick."
Nice try but no.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2026-02-14 06:53|| 2026-02-14 06:53|| Front Page Top

9 re: #6

The question I have is when does AI become self-aware?

A that point the question is "WHY did it do that?

Posted by alanc 2026-02-14 09:33|| 2026-02-14 09:33|| Front Page Top

10 There hasn’t been real privacy since the internet became a thing, I have been assured. Which is how so many January 6-ers were scooped up. And TEA Partiers found themselves with IRS and permit problems a decade earlier.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-02-14 14:09|| 2026-02-14 14:09|| Front Page Top

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