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Maven's AI agents: who is accountable when they fail?Part 3 of 3

Anthropic told courts it cannot alter Claude once it is inside a classified Pentagon system, and an appeals court has now ruled that how a laboratory trains its models can itself be a supply chain risk. Military AI splits responsibility between the laboratory that trains the model, the platform that gives it tools and the commander who acts, and no single party holds the whole of it.

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An eighteenth-century constitution in a machine age

The American Bill of Rights was written for a world of muskets, town squares and letters kept in a locked drawer. Two and a half centuries of invention have moved much of private life and public speech into places the framers never pictured. The question is whether the amendments have lost their grip on modern life, or whether their broad wording is exactly what allows them to keep up.

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