Wednesday, October 14Global edition

Topic: AI weapons development risks

Houthi weapons cell used Anthropic's Claude to develop missiles, company says

The group ran simultaneous AI sessions to divide up coding, research and review across a guided rocket, a ballistic missile and a hypersonic glide vehicle programme. Anthropic said its safeguards blocked many requests but the actors found workarounds, and a live rocket test in Yemen appeared to fail before they returned to Claude to diagnose it.

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