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It Turns Out the US Military Really Did Use AI to Blow Up a School Full of Iranian Children
Now over half a year into the United States’ war on Iran, it’s becoming abundantly clear that AI has been instrumental to the American campaign. On the home front, AI and its infrastructure is quietly shaping the ideological battlefield: President Donald Trump is spewing out wartime propaganda slopped together by generative AI, as US-owned data centers and tech company offices become widely accepted as military targets. AI is also proving instrumental for helping US Central Command choose targets for obliteration via drone strikes or missiles — so much so that an AI system played a pivotal role in perpetuating an American war crime. According to new reporting by Bloomberg, the Pentagon’s investigation into the February 28th air strikes on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school — a double-tap strike which killed over 150 people, including at least 123 children — concluded that the attack was the result of outdated intelligence and over-reliance on an AI targeting system. Interviewed by Bloomberg, anonymous military investigators involved in the probe characterized the horrifying attack as the result of a series of small “errors,” rather than one ill-fated mistake. Those errors, stemming from dusty intel, seem to have been compounded by the involvement of an...
