Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 20.09.2026
From Iran to Venezuela, the U.S. military has been using an “AI-first” approach to warfare. But the recent dispute between the Defense Department and artificial intelligence company Anthropic raises questions about whether the military’s deployment of the technology is effective, safe, and lawful.
Anthropic wanted the military to promise that it would not use its AI model, Claude, in weapons that can identify and fire on targets without human input — commonly referred to as “fully autonomous weapons.” The company also sought to prohibit the use of Claude to spy on Americans, particularly by analyzing location records, financial information, and other large datasets that the military has purchased on the commercial market[i].
The request came after the military reportedly used Claude in its attack on Venezuela and the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
In January this year, American imperialism Defense Secretary Peter Brian Hegseth presented the Pentagon’s “AI Acceleration Strategy,” which aims to remove barriers and rapidly expand the use of the.
However, according to U.S. officials, the implementation of the systems is done in a decentralized manner: different bodies in the military and the intelligence community use different tools, under non-uniform instructions and safety standards. According to them, there is no single set of rules that defines how information generated by AI should be verified before it can be used to make operational decisions.
CNN revealed that an intelligence report prepared with the help of artificial intelligence during the war in Iran mistakenly stated that a Chinese ship was carrying components for nuclear weapons. Soldiers were already preparing for the raid, and planes were in the air, until it was discovered that the report was completely wrong:
According to the report, the incident occurred last spring when an intelligence report obtained by U.S. military officials determined that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying components related to a nuclear weapons program. The information immediately sparked serious concern, and the military began preparing to intercept the vessel. Four sources who spoke to CNN said that preparations had already reached an advanced stage: armed U.S. military personnel were preparing to board the ship and military planes were already in the air. It was only shortly before the planned operation that officials decided to take a closer look at the report – and then it turned out that it had been written [ii]with the help of artificial intelligence, and that a chatbot used by the analyst had incorrectly identified the material the ship was carrying.[iii]
The Zionist monster uses an AI system called “the Gospel”, to determine which targets the Israeli Air Force would bomb. It automatically provides a targeting recommendation to a human analyst who decides whether to pass it along to soldiers in the field. The recommendations can be anything from individual fighters, rocket launchers, Hamas command posts to private homes of the families suspected of Hamas or Islamic Jihad members[iv]
The use of the AI helped the Zionist monster to carry out the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza.
The RCIT has warned against the use of AI as it is meant for the destruction of the forces of production and in particular working people. On the danger of the use of the AI see Use-Value, Exchange-Value, and Artificial Intelligence (Theses):
By Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT.)[v]
Last week, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher at Anthropic, resigned his job with a warning on social media that the leading A.I. companies were “gambling with our lives” and that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
An open letter from Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive warned that within six months to a year, A.I. agents, acting autonomously and improving continually, could be capable of taking over the entire internet measured in “hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.” He called on A.I. companies to work at a slower pace, and for the U.S to reach agreements with China that could mitigate the more acute risks connected to A.I. The letter was endorsed by Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, among others.
“Trump wrote that the only control that AI needs is a strong and smart President, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! The safety concerns are a “hoax” and that A.I. regulation should be light, lest China steal a march on America’s slender A.I. lead. Agreeing with him is Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, who on Monday dismissed Coxon’s warnings as “not grounded in science.”
Like Turing, Wiener, Good and Hawking before him, and Bostrom, Russell, Yudkowsky, Hinton, Bengio, Christiano, Carlsmith, Tegmark, Wozniak, Sutskever, Hassabis, Amodei, Leahy and, more recently, Gates, not without recalling the role popular culture has played in dramatizing such warnings through films such as Will Smith’s I, Robot, Coxon confronts that intelligence may cease to be only a capability and become an autonomous means of acquiring “real power and resources,” ultimately posing an existential danger to humanity.[vi]
The AI has existed for 75 years. AI began at a time when computing power was still largely reliant on human brains, the British mathematician Alan Turing imagined a machine capable of advancing far past its original programming. To Turing, a computing machine would initially be coded to work according to that program but could expand beyond its original functions. The term “artificial intelligence” was coined by John McCarthy during the 1956 Dartmouth Conference, where a small group of researchers are largely credited with founding AI.
ELIZA was created by the MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966, ELIZA is widely considered the first chatbot and was intended to simulate therapy by repurposing the answers users gave into questions that prompted further conversation—also known as the Rogerian argument.
Between 1966 and 1972, the Artificial Intelligence Center at the Stanford Research Initiative developed Shakey the Robot, a mobile robot system equipped with sensors and a TV camera, which it used to navigate different environments. The objective in creating Shakey was “to develop concepts and techniques in artificial intelligence. An automation to function independently in realistic environments.
The period between the late 1970s and early 1990s signaled an “AI winter”—a term first used in 1984—that referred to the gap between AI expectations and the technology’s shortcomings with cuts in founding.
Ernst Dickmanns, a scientist working in Germany, invented the first self-driving car in 1986.
In 1996, IBM had its computer system Deep Blue—a chess-playing computer program—compete against then-world chess champion Gary Kasparov in a six-game match-up. At the time, Deep Blue won only one of the six games, but the following year, it won the rematch. In fact, it took only 19 moves to win the final game.
In 2000 Kismet was created in MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and helmed by Dr. Cynthia Breazeal/ Kismet contained sensors, a microphone, and programming that outlined “human emotion processes.” All of this helped the robot read and mimic a range of feelings.
NASA sent two rovers—named Spirit and Opportunity—to the Mars planet. Both were equipped with AI that helped them traverse Mars’ difficult, rocky terrain, and make decisions in real-time rather than rely on human assistance to do so.
In 2011, Apple came with a virtual assistant named Siri. Three years later, Amazon released its virtual assistant named Alexa. Both had natural language processing capabilities that could understand a spoken question and respond with an answer.
Later the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton began exploring the idea of an AI system built to process data in a manner like the human brain.[vii]
Lately we have heard a lot about AI. On one hand the capitalists’ owners of the AI companies say that AI is dangerous, but it is impossible to stop it. However, Tressie McMillan Cottom, an opinion columnist in NYT, put her finger on the real reason why the powerful leaders of A.I. want us to panic about rogue A.I. models. Because panic sells the idea that A.I. is ungovernable. They are afraid of meaningful regulation, and would rather we panic than see the laws that restrict the use of AI. We should be wary of Silicon Valley’s apocalyptic visions motivated by their greed.
In the Zionist right-wing newspaper “Israel Today” we find:
“Last weekend, there was an earthquake in the world of AI: the giant Anthropic was forced to unexpectedly take off the air of its newest and most advanced models, the Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The extreme step came in the wake of the Trump administration’s export control order, which prohibits “any foreign citizen” from using these services.:
Leading security experts say it’s nothing more than burying your head in the sand. The attempt to stop Anthropic may delay the process, but it hides a much harder truth: these capabilities will be available to everyone in a matter of months.
It’s extremely short-sighted to think that no other competitor will develop capabilities like Mythos, or that they haven’t already,” explains Tara Wheeler, chief security officer at the consulting firm TPO Group. There are companies that are blowing in the back of Anthropic’ s neck, holding these capabilities ‘in the cartridge’ and waiting to see how the regulator will treat them.”[viii]
As the AI is in use by armies and a third World War that will use AI can begin, the only way we can stop the imperialists is by socialist revolution.
Endnotes:
[i] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/militarys-use-ai-explained
[ii] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-china-tensions-how-a-faulty-ai-report-almost-started-a-war-between-us-china-12067218
III https://mezha.net/eng/news/bf65003e_a_faulty_ai/
[iv] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets
[v] Michael Pröbsting ,Use-Value, Exchange-Value, and Artificial Intelligence (Theses) 2016 https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/use-value-exchange-value-and-artificial-intelligence-theses/
[vi] https://www.forbes.com/sites/hamiltonmann/2026/09/12/coxons-ai-warning-is-mainstream-now-what/
[vii] Coursera Staff The History of AI: A Timeline of Artificial Intelligence
(Updated on Apr 22, 2026)
[viii] https://www.israelhayom.co.il/tech/tech-news/article/20780859