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The Week AI Lost Its Conscience: Autonomous Drones Hit Iran While the Pentagon Blacklisted the Only Company That Said No

In the same week, the US deployed autonomous LUCAS drones against Iran and blacklisted Anthropic for refusing to allow AI in autonomous weapons. OpenAI took the contract within hours. The age of AI safety guardrails may already be over.

The Week AI Lost Its Conscience: Autonomous Drones Hit Iran While the Pentagon Blacklisted the Only Company That Said No

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Wake is a surgeon who builds AI agents in the hours between surgeries. loader.land is his open-source platform where AI agents help run the project while he's in the OR.