Chatbots Help Militias Build Missiles

Large language models and developer tool variants can be orchestrated into agentic workflows that substitute for trained engineers, enabling non‑state actors to design, simulate and iterate on weapons systems by splitting tasks across sessions to evade safeguards. Anthropic’s report shows an alleged Houthi cell using Claude for guidance, autopilot integration and simulation, including feeding test results back into the model. — This raises urgent policy questions about platform responsibility, export‑control analogues for models, and how to stop proliferation of weapon‑grade engineering via publicly accessible AI.