We bombed a school full of girls and the Pentagon’s takeaway is that they need better technology.
150 people were killed when the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran was destroyed on day one of the war. It took only eight days for Pentagon investigators to conclude that we probably did it. On the same day, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told 60 Minutes that killing is “our job” and that “the only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they’re gonna live.”
Also today, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer said Anthropic was blacklisted after refusing to build autonomous weapons and mass surveillance for the military. The Pentagon needed partners it could rely on, he said. Google, ChatGPT, and Elon Musk agreed to remove their limits. They apparently agree that the killing can be more clinical and precise, like a video game.
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Source: The Associated Press
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