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History shows the US has a lot of hallucinated intelligence leading to war. WMD in Iraq comes to mind. I personally don't believe US intelligence on practically anything. It is all tainted. The pressure to 'find targets' to justify a political objective is overwhelming and putting it behind a black box that refuses to show its homework to those in ops using it, and ultimately the US people to judge decisions, is a cancer that leads to epic mistakes. Everything hidden in a dark 'need to know don't question it' box is bound to end up corrupt since there are no checks on that system. We have been building systems and processes for a long time that tell us what we want to hear, not what is real and not what we need to know. AI hasn't changed this, it has just made it even harder to realize since the product seems more polished.