An announcement by an Anthropic researcher that so-called “Superintelligent AI” has a greater than 10% chance of destroying humanity over the next decade triggered widespread alarm. Of more immediate concern are the ways in which humans are already using AI, not how AI will potentially escape human control. The U.S. security state is now seeking out and collaborating with AI firms on “offensive cyber ops”; AI targeting systems; and efforts to sift through and interpret vast troves of data on American citizens and foreigners collected by the U.S. government. AI firms, including Anthropic, are already deeply integrated into the U.S. military-industrial complex. Anthropic ... partnered with Palantir “to provide U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to the Claude 3 and 3.5 family of models on AWS [Amazon Web Services].” Inside Palantir's Maven system, military planners have used Claude to analyze intelligence feeds and build prioritized target lists for strikes on Iran. Claude also played a role in the operation to kidnap Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro. Asked by Bloomberg about the possibility Claude was used in the strike on a girls’ school in Iran that killed at least 120 children, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that he did “not know exactly” if or how Claude had been used in the strike but that the girls school bombing was “a use case that doesn’t even violate our red lines.”