Paris Marx15h ago

“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.”

Maven, the program Google was forced to pull out of and Palantir took over, was the system that identified the girls’ school as a target.

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

#tech #google #palantir #iran #iranwar #politics

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
Show threadThe Doctor15h ago
@parismarx I very much think that the LLM is an excuse for bombing the targets they were going to take out anyway.
Show threadGeorge B

@drwho @parismarx

LLM chat bots are so good at obfuscating accountability they can do it even in situations when they're not used.

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Show threadThe Doctor11h ago
@gbargoud @parismarx Yep.