These weapons have existed in various forms as far back as the 1960’s. Missles, lasers and satellites designed to attack other satelittes. Someone must be trying for a promotion.

The source for this article is not great. Maybe OP should consider that before sharing it here.

You guys think that I can use Claude to build a time machine out of a DeLorean?

This is the key point.

From my reading that is not the limit in how they are using AI. It seems like they are accepting LLM generated code as inputs.

This pretty much compromises the whole project as far as I am concerned.