Tag: Newsletter #65

This newsletter was sent on Tuesday, March 10th, 2026.

Anthropic is powering the horrific strikes on Iran

A child walks toward a large, charred rocket or missile casing embedded nose-first in a green field, with damaged buildings and trees visible in the background

The US and Israeli war on Iran is a live testing ground for deploying AI in a large-scale war. The Wall Street Journal first reported that Anthropic’s Claude is central to the onslaught: assessing intelligence and identifying targets. This isn’t the first time Anthropic’s systems have been used to assist in illegal US operations: they were also deployed in Maduroo’s kidnapping from Venezuela.

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Racist Technology in Action: Dutch Probation Service uses discriminatory algorithm for predicting recidivism

Diagram showing the simplified RISC risk assessment process in the Dutch criminal justice system: after arrest, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) requests advice from the probation service (reclassering), which uses the RISC tool containing a mandatory section (Huisvesting, Financiën, OXREC) and an optional sex offenses section (STATIC-99R, STABLE-2007, ACUTE-2007), after which the probation service's advice is passed to the OM, which uses it to demand sentencing from de Rechtspraak (the judiciary)

The Dutch Inspectorate of Justice and Security reviewed the algorithm that predicts whether a suspect or an offender will reoffend (to help with sentencing) and found it lacking. Not only was it implemented incorrectly, but it was also discriminatory. The Probation Service has suspended the use of the algorithm for now while it assesses whether it can fix its problems.

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