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Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing

Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.
John Keough (This Week in Worcester)
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Tomtits
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Tomtits
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So we're just sailing into a time where AI will get blamed for anything and everything and, no-one will get held accountable or punished?
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freagle
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freagle
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It's not like before a.i. the US was held responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of children.
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calliope
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Oh for sure, they’re taking big tech’s lead.

Tech has been blaming AI for layoffs for a couple years now, when they hired an insane number of people during and after COVID. They literally hired to lay off. I found this graph illustrative of the boom and bust.

The people in this administration love when tech can get away with something (see the Cambridge Analytica scandal around 2016) because they will too.


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kibiz0r
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Yes. AI allows the user to separate output from understanding, accountability, and obligation. It can launder intention just as well as inattention. AI is the ultimate tool of fascism.

Edit: But I should mention, this is not new. Institutions have been pursuing techniques for this long before AI. Everything Was Already AI

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UnspecificGravity
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What about the other schools that the US and Israel have hit? What about the hospitals and civilian residential areas? What about the fact that the US military seems to want credit for the bombing?
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cøre
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cøre
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No it didn't, if there was oversight they saw the target and didn't care.
AI is not the problem, its the scapegoat. They want to be able to shrug and point at AI, saying there was a misclassification and that it wasn't their fault. Meanwhile they ignore the fact that a human at any point in time could have stopped the attack or double checked the target. They chose not to because they don't care. Collateral damage, wanton destruction, and civilian casualties is the goal.
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Kichae
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This is the WHOLE point of why these generative models have been pushed so hard the past couple of years. They tested the waters to see if people would accept "it's the computer's fault" as an acceptable excuse, and then slammed on the gas.

Accountability sinks, as Dan Davies has named them, are the whole point. It's everything a slimy corporate CEO or government official has ever wanted.

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No_Money_Just_Change
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It can be a hundred percent their fault for not caring and still be a target selected by ai. Bombing innocents is never justified and never just something to call a technological error but the fact they are combining faulty non transparent software with unsupervised weapon attacks is dangerous and newsworthy
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captchacrunch
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Can we get a better source on this?
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quick_snail
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WSJ was first to report that Anthropic's Claude AI was used in determining targets in Iran, but it's paywalled.

Futurism published an article asking the Pentagon about it, and the Pentagon refused to answer questions.

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t3rmit3
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That would be a crazy turnabout given their public banning by Trump from being used by the USFG (mil included).
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quick_snail
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Yes. Other news outlets commented how contradictory it was that they declared it a supply chain risk, yet continued to use it in an active military campaign.
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bilouba
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Destroying schools is part of the Israel blueprint. Destroy culture and education as soon as you can.
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orca
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No, it was Israel. They can use this as cover. Now suddenly OpenAI and Claude are at fault. Oops! Israel excels at bombing civilian targets and schools. Biggest bunch of fucking cowards I’ve ever seen.
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quick_snail
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Reuters said it was the US, not Israel.

Both are capable of committing genocide, with or without AI. See history.

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orca
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orca
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The US at the behest of Israel. The US has no strategy or plan for Iran, but Netanyahu has wanted this for 40 years. Subjugating and defeating Iran is a key part of the “Greater Israel” plan. This is Israel puppeteering the US to do its bidding.
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Kwakigra
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Israel would look very different if they didn't have the total impunity the US provides especially recently. Everything the Israeli government has done has been the US's responsibility for decades. The US doesn't give Israel privileged treatment because they've been tricked. They do it because Israel is primarily their own colony that they want to see made permanent.
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orca
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100% spot on. They’ve managed to make a bunch of Christian nationalists believe that Israel’s “Greater Israel” plan that Netanyahu himself has wanted for 40 years, is part of their own Christian story. That’s why all of those reports came out about US military leadership telling soldiers that this was some sort of scripted divine war. The US is just Israel now. We funded a terrorist regime, it surpassed us, and now we’ve become a part of it.
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Kwakigra
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Here it is. The ultimate purpose of AI technology. Corporatism has all but eliminated any accountability by almost all Western leaders, and now there will be no accountability at all as long as this paradigm of implicitly trusting the most untrustworthy people in the world persists.
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