AI CEO Coldly Defends U.S. Massacre of 170 Children at Minab School

WASHINGTON (KI) -- The chief of Anthropic, the company whose artificial intelligence helped the U.S. military target an Iranian elementary school, has coldly defended the attack — insisting it did not violate his firm’s ethical “red lines.”

Dario Amodei was confronted with the reality of the February 28 strike on Minab Elementary School in southern Iran, which killed more than 170 children and teachers on the very first day of the U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran. His response was as chilling as the attack itself.
“We do not know exactly how these models were used… and what you are talking about is a use case that does not even violate our red lines,” Amodei said. He then sought to deflect responsibility from the algorithm to the officer who pressed the button: “A human made that final call.”
That call — enabled by Anthropic’s AI and Palantir’s targeting systems — sent Tomahawk missiles crashing into a school full of children. On the same day, U.S. forces used similar AI-assisted methods to strike a sports hall in Lamerd City, killing another 24 innocent civilians.
But Amodei’s “red lines” remained uncrossed. Apparently, the incineration of 170 students is compatible with Anthropic’s ethics. Only the company’s shareholders will know for certain.
The Minab massacre was not an anomaly or a malfunction. Throughout the 40-day unprovoked U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran, which claimed at least 3,500 civilian lives, American and Israeli forces systematically relied on AI systems developed by Western tech giants — particularly Palantir — to select targets. 
Last month, the Pentagon formalized this marriage of convenience, announcing contracts with Google, Amazon Web Services, SpaceX, OpenAI, NVIDIA and Microsoft.
Palantir’s CEO, Alex Karp, had already proclaimed a “new era” of AI-enabled U.S. military supremacy. This is that era: schools in flames, sports halls in rubble, and Silicon Valley executives debating whether the massacre of children violates their internal guidelines.
Amodei’s attempt to shift blame onto the human “who made that final call” is a convenient dodge. The AI identified the school. The AI recommended the strike. The AI was built and sold by Anthropic. 
That the company now distances itself from the consequences of its own product is not moral reckoning — it is complicity with a fig leaf.
The aggression began on February 28 with airstrikes that assassinated
 senior Iranian officials, including Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. 
Iran responded with missile and drone barrages against Israeli-occupied territories and U.S. assets across the region, while closing the Strait of Hormuz. A temporary ceasefire took effect on April 8, but negotiations have since stalled amid continued US blockades.
Through it all, Silicon Valley’s AI systems worked as advertised — efficient, precise, and utterly indifferent to the children in the crosshairs. And according to Anthropic’s CEO, that is perfectly within “red lines.” The rest of the world may draw its own conclusions.