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Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/posted in Technology
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/Replying to @Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club
I suspect that everyone in here complaining about AI didn’t actually read the article.
The article states that Palantir’s Maven system was over-relied on, and compressed a process that would have taken months into one that took days, but it also points out that that Maven didn’t actually make a mistake based on the way it was supposed to operate.
It sounds like some military personnel were mistaken in how much vetting and revetting maven itself would do, but the article also lays much of the blame at Hegseth’s gutting of the civilian harm roles, and failures in intelligence vetting and gathering that fed into maven in the first place. Years ago US intelligence personnel had flagged that Minab had turned into a school, but that information was not in the database used by maven.
Like I have no doubt that Maven is part of the problem, but it sounds like it was far from the only part.
Replying to @masterspace@lemmy.ca
Hegseth wants to have AI to blame for his war crimes.
Replying to @masterspace@lemmy.ca
It wasn’t a mistake. Maven wasn’t over relied upon, there were no failures in vetting. They don’t care. The people who would care have been removed.
To kill a bunch of innocent children… It’s monstrous. The minds of those who would perpetrate such an act are stained with an evil so dark it sickens the average man.
Humans can be terrible, terrible, creatures.