The Download: how AI is used for military targeting, and the Pentagon’s war on Claude

The US military is considering using generative AI systems (AI models that can create text and analyze data) to help rank military targets and recommend which ones to strike, with human officials making final decisions. The Pentagon is also favoring OpenAI's ChatGPT and xAI's Grok for these high-stakes military applications, while facing criticism from officials who claim that Anthropic's Claude would negatively affect the defense supply chain.