Name: How AI is being used in war in 2026 | DW News
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The capture of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, both US military actions that were heavily supported by AI.

And similar tech can also track you 24 7.

What's next for AI in war and surveillance?

And most importantly, who's actually in charge?

So what does AI assisted warfare actually look like?

But instead of finding the fastest route to work, it calculates the most efficient way to achieve a military goal.

Lately, the US military command has reportedly used AI in three main areas.

AI can scan huge amounts of satellite and drone footage and flag changes like new construction, unusual vehicle movement, or activity at sensitive sites.

If we strike here, how does the enemy respond there?

AI can explore risk and likely consequences much faster than humans can.

Fusing intelligence, AI can help combine signals, sensors, reports, and

other data into one picture that updates quickly the result.

Military planning that used to take weeks now happens much faster.

But beyond the battlefield, AI is already used for massive public surveillance.

ICE is using similar tech to track immigrants.

Many users worldwide strongly criticize this use of AI and the connection between government efforts and private AI companies.

With the Iran war that's at the center of a global controversy, who powers the US's war?

Anthropic is the US company behind Claude, the AI which has reportedly powered the military actions in Iran and Venezuela.

Anthropic has consistently stated two red lines.

One, no mass domestic surveillance using its AI systems in the us.

Two, no use of CLAW to operate fully autonomous weapons without human oversight.

Because of these guardrails, Anthropic has fallen out of favor with the Trump administration.

Trump has ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's technology.

Now stay tuned for a drama between AI companies and Washington that landed right in users labs.

Just hours after Anthropic was blacklisted, Sam Altman stepped in quickly, signing a massive deal with the Department of War.

Critics were ringing the alarm, calling OpenAI's initial safeguards vague and full of legal loopholes.

The public didn't wait for an explanation.

Uninstalls in the US skyrocketed by nearly 300% in a single day.

Users fled to Anthropic and Claude became the number one AI app in several countries.

Since then, Altman has been in damage control.

He admitted the move looked opportunistic and sloppy and has now amended the deal to include explicit bans on mass domestic surveillance and on monitored AI access to autonomous weapons.

If the company with the seemingly loser rules wins the contract and national laws on the use of AI in conflicts remain vague, all of us will fear the consequences.

The way forward the defense industry insists that AI in warfare is a moral necessity.

They argue AI can reduce the effect of human error and leads to more precise decisions, which results in less collateral damage.

And when applied to autonomous weapons or nuclear arsenals, those mistakes could become catastrophic.

In simulated international crisis scenarios, leading AI models escalated to nuclear signaling in 95% of cases.

That's the finding of a recent study by King's College London.

Under time pressure, one of the models became even more aggressive and crossed the highest nuclear threshold in some scenarios.

If AI war systems operate on rules that aren't transparent to us, while governments hand over more and more authority to algorithms, we're in deep trouble.

The line of who's actually in charge is blurring.

And when you add private companies into the mix, entities driven by shareholder value rather than public safety, we are entering explosive territory, if you ask me.

We need clear, enforceable regulations on AI and warfare, not just for governments, but

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