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1 week agoAnthropic's Pentagon Contract In Jeopardy Over Questions About AI Spying
Anthropic and the Pentagon are in a contract dispute over military use and surveillance restrictions for Anthropic's Claude AI model.
The defense ministry has announced that it's funding research and development at SWARM Biotactics to create technology that can "steer cockroaches and send them on reconnaissance missions," CBS News reported. CEO Stefan Wilhelm said the cockroaches are "super resilient" and can crawl through "tiny spaces," climb up walls, go into pipes, and navigate through rubble. How does this work? Neuroscientists at the company put electrodes on the critters' antennae to "stimulate the insects' natural ability to navigate."