Emeritus Prof Christopher May2d ago

The Iranian children killed in the airstrike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school early on in the US/Israeli assault on Iran were not as the popular trope increasingly has it 'killed by AI' but rather were killed by years & years of lazy & inaccurate bureaucracy; hiding behind AI allows the real culprit(s) to enjoy impunity from an atrocity & likely war crime.

Kevin Baker's detailed exploration of what was behind the airstrike is a long read but worth it!

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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

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

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@ChrisMayLA6 @karanotlar Everyone seems to have memory-holed the lessons from the machine learning algorithm hype almost 2 decades ago, but today’s AI is basically the same thing, and it’s still “garbage in, garbage out.”
Mar 26 at 3:47pmWeb