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

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faxmeyourcode · 1789761581 · 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 · 1789762979 · 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. Cthulhu_ · 1789771330 · focus · HN ↗
    Responsible, no (as someone else pointed out). I don't know anything else.
    AI technology was used to target Palestinian / Hamas targets (and often their families), ultimately there was a human behind the wheels that would do a thumbsup or down. They spent less than two seconds on many targets. Make of that what you will. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_Gaza_Strip" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G...
    ikrenji · 1789772809 · focus · HN ↗
    --dangerously-skip-permissions ~ no one has time to review all this targeting bs

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