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AI 'kill chain' contributed to Minab school killings: Bloomberg

AI 'kill chain' contributed to Minab school killings: Bloomberg
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A Bloomberg investigation reveals that the Pentagon's excessive reliance on AI systems fed with outdated targeting data and lacking human oversight was responsible for US airstrikes that killed over 150 people, mostly children, at a school in Minab, southern Iran. Dozens of current and former US officials acknowledged to Bloomberg that Pentagon personnel realized within hours that a cascade of preventable failures caused this humanitarian catastrophe.

An Artificial Intelligence "kill chain" was behind the US missile strikes that killed more than 150 people - most of them children - at a school in Minab, southern Iran.

According to a Bloomberg investigation, the Pentagon knows its overreliance on AI, which is fed with outdated targeting data and lacks human oversight, was behind the deadly strikes, which killed at least 123 children.

More than two dozen current and former US officials, who spoke to Bloomberg on the condition of anonymity, said some Pentagon personnel knew within hours that the US military's “cascade of preventable failures” was responsible for the civilian catastrophe.

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