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Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

974 points · 553 comments · devonnull

sedan_baklazhan · 1790105835 · focus · HN ↗
That is absolutely irrelevant. USA will never take responsibility. Nobody will be prosecuted. No compensations will be paid.
1. _heimdall · 1790152804 · focus · HN ↗
  Do you expect any military to be held accountable legally and/or financially when they make a bad decision like this? It'd be great if they were, but I'd never expect it.
  1. sedan_baklazhan · 1790156889 · focus · HN ↗
    Absolutely; but that won't apply to any Western army.
    _heimdall · 1790167767 · focus · HN ↗
    Why western armies specifically? What countries have a history of actually holding their military to legal account for their actions?
    bamboozled · 1790175840 · focus · HN ↗
    Have you heard of Germany?
    jackb4040 · 1790179939 · focus · HN ↗
    I don't think that's the example you want. Left to their own devices the Germans would not have held themselves accountable. As we speak the most popular party in Germany is a holocaust revisionist party.
    sedan_baklazhan · 1790190604 · focus · HN ↗
    Germany would never be held accountable unless defeated by the USSR. And even so, it was still very limited responsibility.
    _heimdall · 1790205417 · focus · HN ↗
    Japan knew this one as well. Their future would have been much different if it was the USSR in charge of the pacific after the war finally ended.
    sedan_baklazhan · 1790234880 · focus · HN ↗
    The Chinese people future would be much different (the genocide would go on) if there wasn't USSR in charge in the region.
    _heimdall · 1790205367 · focus · HN ↗
    Yes, though if you are referring to the Nuremberg Trials its not a great example. A huge number of Germans were aware of, complicit in, or directly involved in genocide...the trials had 24 defendants.

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