Beyond Visual Range
Ben Van Roo, Nick WeirAI, Defense, Policy, and what it takes to build all of them.
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Vibe Killer: Six Weeks, Ten Trust Failures, and the Cleanup Crew We Just Hired
The entire software industry right now.
Two weeks ago, Anthropic launched a model it said was too dangerous to release. Within hours, a group of hobbyists on a Discord channel were using it.
The model is called Claude Mythos. Anthropic sh...
The Mythos Paradox
“Oh crap. My AGI just broke out and is loose on the internet and bragging to me.”
Earlier this year, an Anthropic researcher received an email from a system that was not supposed to be able to send emails. The model on the other end, Mytho...
V-2 Rockets, Teslas, and Iran: The Precision of AI We Aren't Measuring Will Save Lives
This is the follow-up to Measuring the Machines that Kill. That piece broke down where Claude actually sits in the Maven Smart System kill chain and estimated the large language model’s (LLM) incremental accuracy contribution at roughly 5-8...
Measuring the Machines that Kill
A note on perspective. I do not write about this topic in a vacuum, as Claude was not only linked to the actions in Iran, but speculation that Claude played some role in the bombing of an elementary school.
As a father of two young childre...
Adolescents of Technology
Scrolling AI Doomer posts while agents go brrrrrr and replace our economy.
Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO and co-founder, calls this era a “technological adolescence“ — a rite of passage where humanity is about to be handed “almost unimagi...
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Ben Van Roo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Legion Intelligence. He has spent his career building technology companies serving the Public and the Private sectors. He holds a BS in CS, an MBA and PhD in Operational Research from the UW-Madison.
VP, Mission Engineering at Legion Intel; formerly AWS and In-Q-Tel
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