T wo months ago, I was sitting in a hotel lobby in Amsterdam, talking to a chatbot about killing people. “Claude, how do you feel about the U.S. military using you to select targets?” I asked Anthropic’s human-seeming large language model. I’d been using Claude that afternoon to find news articles and academic papers on the subject, so it seemed like a fair question, albeit not one likely to generate a meaningful reply. Claude, as you’re surely aware, is a non-sentient computer system that