Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, takes part in a session at the 2026 AI Impact Summit at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on February 19, 2026. RAJAT GUPTA/EPA
Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick showed remarkable foresight in anticipating the challenges of artificial intelligence. In 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the computer HAL (a reference to IBM) tries to take control from humans. He also showed it with Docteur Folamour (Dr. Strangelove, 1964), in which an automatic nuclear retaliation system is secretly put in place, preventing humans – in this case, American and Soviet leaders – from stopping the annihilation of the planet after a conspiracy theorist issues a bombing order against the USSR.
We are there now, as shown by the concerns of Dario Amodei, head of Anthropic, who does not want weapons aided by his AI model Claude to be able to kill without human intervention. "Without proper oversight, fully autonomous weapons cannot be relied upon to exercise the critical judgment that our highly trained, professional troops exhibit every day. They need to be deployed with proper guardrails, which don't exist today," he wrote on Thursday, February 26.
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