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Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal

Critics worry Anthropic is endangering its “ethical” AI stance due to defense associations.

As a reference point for the technology's capabilities, Palantir reported that one (unnamed) American insurance company used 78 AI agents powered by their platform and Claude to reduce an underwriting process from two weeks to three hours. Frequent AI commentator Nabeel S. Qureshi wrote on X, "Imagine telling the safety-concerned, effective altruist founders of Anthropic in 2021 that a mere three years after founding the company, they'd be signing partnerships to deploy their ~AGI model straight to the military frontlines." As he puts it, "It's a disconcerting partnership that sets up the AI industry's growing ties with the US military-industrial complex, a worrying trend that should raise all kinds of alarm bells given the tech's many inherent flaws—and even more so when lives could be at stake."

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