Pentagon AI chief Cameron Stanley, in a sworn DOJ filing defending #xAI from an #NAACP pollution lawsuit over the Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, stated that Elon Musk's #Grok Gov Model was used to deploy "over 2,000 munitions to 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours" during Operation Epic Fury against #Iran. The filing argues the data center is vital to national security. Sen. Gillibrand has introduced a bill to ban #LLMs from making force/detention decisions without human oversight. The Independent adds that this is the first explicit administration admission of using Musk's AI to bomb Iran, and notes the strike on a Minab girls' school killing ~175 children amid scrutiny of AI-driven targeting.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5928204-pentagon-musk-grok-chatbot-iran-strikes/
[...] “Right now, the Pentagon is moving toward deploying incredibly powerful AI technology without commonsense guardrails in place, which could have catastrophic consequences that make all of us less safe,” she added.
That's exactly the point, isn't it? For one thing, AI is not a technology - it's a grab bag of statistical tricks, none of which deserve the label 'incredibly powerful.' LLMs are known for producing plausible-sounding nonsense; they are bad at most of what they're asked to do. And in warfare, plausible-sounding nonsense means plausible-sounding target lists. War crimes are still war crimes, no matter how polished the list of targets that justifies them. Nobody who cares about human life wants that. Only someone who hates humanity would deploy it, and that's exactly what Musk and the Trump regime are doing.
#USA #WarCrimes #NerdReich #ElonMusk #CrimesAgainstHumanity