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AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/report-us-almost-boarded-chinese-ship-over-hallucinated-ai-arms-report/
Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
That’s how AI is going to kill us… It will fake something and make us bomb ourselves.
Replying to @ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net
It doesn’t help that the people currently in charge are fucking stupid, trigger happy, and emotionally insecure.
Replying to @Telorand@reddthat.com
the people currently in charge
They don’t even matter, because here it was some expert analyst super hero at work.
Replying to @Telorand@reddthat.com
Right so in the end it never was about the machines. In the end, it was man’s folly which would have been our inevitable demise.
Replying to @SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
Always was.
Replying to @BrickEater@lemmy.world
🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
Replying to @SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
Are you suggesting that history shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man?
Replying to @Telorand@reddthat.com
Ain’t that the fucking truth.
Replying to @Telorand@reddthat.com
I’d say Trump has the maturity of a 15 yr old but I’ve known more mature 15 yr olds.
Replying to @SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
By his own words he developed his “personality” around the age of ten and hasn’t changed very much since then.
Replying to @Telorand@reddthat.com
in fact, that is the very reason how things are likely going to end badly.
If actually competent and sane people were in charge, it would be unthinkable that they would trust some stupid llm on anything important.
Replying to @reksas@sopuli.xyz
Competent people would have taken care of this problem. Looks like you can count the competent Americans on one hand.