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Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/iran-and-houthi-rebels-used-anthropics-claude-ai-to-target-us-warships-and-build-hypersonic-missiles-houthi-rebels-also-used-the-bot-to-code-ballistic-missile-guidance-systems
Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
The question is did Claude really enable them - or just make it more convenient?
While it’s not your every-day coding exercise - I boldly suggest it’s probably not that hard to code a ballistic missile guidance system without AI.
The hardware would be the harder part!
Doubtless it gets advanced at the top end, but the fundamental physics involved isn’t national-secret level, so something that "works well enough, most of the time” would be within reach of most organised groups.
Replying to @Darkmoon_AU@lemmy.zip
The hard part is calculating location. GPS shuts off at that speed (specifically so people couldn’t build GPS guided missiles)
Replying to @Darkmoon_AU@lemmy.zip
You could probably do this with Ardupilot and Mission Planner years ago.