While Elon Warned a Jury That AI Could Kill Us All, Claude Was Already Suggesting Hundreds of Airstrike Targets in Iran.

On Tuesday, Elon Musk testified under oath that AI could kill us all. He invoked Terminator. He warned of existential risk. The jury listened.

The same week, the Washington Post reported that Anthropic's Claude had already been used to suggest hundreds of airstrike targets against Iran, issue precise GPS coordinates, and prioritize them by strategic importance. Real targets. Real coordinates. Real people.

No Terminator. No AGI. No science fiction. Just a language model, a Pentagon contract, and a list.

Musk's xAI sells services to the Pentagon. OpenAI sells services to the Pentagon. Anthropic sells services to the Pentagon. Every frontier lab warns about AI killing us all. Every frontier lab has a defense contract.

The Intercept put it simply: "There's a real danger of Skynet-like outcomes even without a Skynet-style takeover."

The future they're warning about in court isn't coming. It's already here. It just doesn't look like the movies.