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1. legitster · 1790105097 · focus · HN ↗

   > It found the U.S. “failed in its obligation to do everything feasible to verify” that the school was a military objective and that the failure “went beyond mere negligence.” The report said the United States “directed the strikes at the building of the school while being aware of a substantial risk of striking a civilian object and acting recklessly as regards the possibility that this would happen.”

   Reading the details, "AI" doesn't really seem like the culprit -it's a scapegoat.

   The intelligence that it was no longer a military target never entered the target database, the team that was responsible for vetting the target list was gutted, and said team was never even consulted.

   The White House wanted 1000 targets and pulled from their database without any due diligence. Whether it was an AI call or an SQL query - this was from pure human maliciousness and incompetence.

   1. puelocesar · 1790147801 · focus · HN ↗

      I always said that AI is dangerous not because it's superintelligence will threaten humanity, but because some dumb/lazy people will overestimate it's abilities and use it where they should not.

      This is just one more example of it. I'm waiting for even more disastrous ones.

      1. jackb4040 · 1790177461 · focus · HN ↗

         All the AI leaders running around demanding everyone care about hypothetical "existential risk" and killing all of humanity are suspiciously silent on its active role in the emerging world war.

         1. no-name-here · 1790184935 · focus · HN ↗

            Which AI leaders?

            Anthropic’s leader objected so strenuously that their entire company was blacklisted from doing any business with the government, and blacklisted from any contractors working for the government from using Anthropic there either.

            OpenAI’s agreement also included some restrictions, and they put out a press release about the restrictions.

            So at least those AI leaders aren’t silent about AI’s military use.

            1. jackb4040 · 1790189887 · focus · HN ↗

               That's theater, the government and more important the defense sector are using Anthropic products like crazy.

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