New US policy on AI threatens industry disruption, puts US at loggerheads with Holy See

AI giant Anthropic is facing potentially disastrous backlash from U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the recently renamed War Dept. over Anthropic’s refusal to allow the Pentagon to use their Claude AI platform in the design or deployment of autonomous AI weapons systems.

Colloquially known as “killer robots” and officially styled LAWS – Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems – the very idea of such systems has been controversial for generations, and the Holy See has been voicing opposition...