Peter Hanecak1d ago
1/2 "The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a [DIA] database that, according to CNN, had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent [IRGC] compound and converted into a school, a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest. A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

The Guardian
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2/2 "Eight years ago, Maven was the most contested project in #SiliconValley. In 2018, more than 4,000 #Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the #Pentagon’s targeting systems. Workers organised a walk out. Engineers quit. And Google ultimately abandoned the contract. #PalantirTechnologies, a data analytics company and defence contractor co-founded by #PeterThiel, took it over …"
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