Claude AI has selected over 1,000 targets in the US-Israeli war against Iran

facebook iconA plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 2, 2026. [AP Photo/Mohsen Ganji]Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence system—embedded in Palantir’s Maven Smart System on classified military networks—is being used by the US military to identify and prioritize targets in the criminal war of aggression against Iran launched by the United States and Israel on February 28. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Claude generated approximately 1,000 prioritized targets on the first day of operations alone, synthesizing satellite imagery, signals intelligence and surveillance feeds in real time to produce target lists with precise GPS coordinates, weapons recommendations and automated legal justifications for strikes.This represents the first large-scale deployment of generative AI in active US warfighting operations. It is being used to wage a war that has already killed 787 Iranians, according to Amnesty International, including an estimated 150 schoolchildren in a missile strike on a school in the southern city of Minab on March 1, which UNESCO described as “a grave violation of humanitarian law.”As the World Socialist Web Site previously reported, last week the Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic and designated it a “supply chain risk to national security” after CEO Dario Amodei refused Pentagon demands for unrestricted access to Claude, insisting on two narrow contractual restrictions against mass domestic surveillance of Ameri...