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US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report

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  1. faxmeyourcode · · focus · HN ↗
    This is how AI is going to kill us all. It's not going to become superintelligent and harvest our biomass for energy - we're just going to assume it's moderately intelligent and those assumptions will lead to badly informed decisions and by the time we realize we are acting on bad information it will be far too late for anyone to do anything about it.
    1. verzali · · focus · HN ↗
      Wasn't AI responsible for the US bombing a girl's school? That incident and who or what were responsible is not discussed enough.
      1. chrisjj · · focus · HN ↗
        > Wasn't AI responsible for the US bombing a girl's school?

        No. The morons who relied on it were responsible.

        1. amelius · · focus · HN ↗
          No. The morons who hired those morons were responsible.
          1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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          2. notthemessiah · · focus · HN ↗
            It was of course Palantir's Project Maven which lead us to drop a $2.5M missile on over 120 schoolchildren:

            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2026-iran-school-attack&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2026-iran-school-attack&#x2F;

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