Elon Musk VS Anthropic: The world’s richest man Elon Musk has targeted Anthropic for its involvement in the Iran war. He wrote on a user’s post on X that there is no company more hypocritical than Anthropic. Let us tell you that the user had appealed to the employees of Anthropic to leave the company. For this, the user held Anthropic responsible for the attacks carried out by America on Iran.
He accused the company of linking Anthropic’s Claude AI model with the Pentagon’s Maven software, which was used to identify military targets in Iran. It has been claimed in the post that with the help of this AI technology, a school was attacked, in which more than 150 girls lost their lives. Elmore has held Anthropic equally responsible for this in the post.
What allegations were made against Anthropic?
A user named Elmore wrote against Anthropic on Due to this, Elmore has appealed to the employees of Anthropic Company to leave the company. According to her profile, Holly Elmore is the executive director of PauseAIUS and a PhD holder in ‘Evolutionary Biology’, which works to prevent and raise awareness of the dangers of AI.
Why did Elon Musk take aim?
Reposting Holly Elmore’s post, Elon Musk wrote, ‘Is there any company more hypocritical than this?’ Musk was writing about Anthropic’s recent dispute with the Pentagon government. In this controversy, it has come to light that Anthropic does not want the US government to use AI to monitor people or create weapons that operate as per their wish. In such a situation, Musk targeted Anthropic citing Holly Elmore’s allegations.
What do experts say?
According to the report, experts say that Holly Elmore’s statement is true that the Pentagon used Anthropic’s ClaudeAI for the attacks on Iran. However, it does not seem that they are up-to-date with the entire incident. Actually, Pentagon used Claude AI in Iran attacks after Trump banned Anthropic.
Apart from this, the company also had differences with the Pentagon regarding the use of AI. After which Anthropic was banned by Trump calling it a threat to the country. In such a situation, Claude AI was used in the Iran war after the ban.
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