In the final days of February, the Trump administration demanded an overwhelming aerial assault. More than 1,000 Iranian targets were hit within the first 24 hours alone. That order compressed the time frame for finalizing targets, the officials said, instilling an urgency that — combined with gaps in underlying information about the site, cuts in civilian-protection personnel and an overreliance on artificial-intelligence technology — set the stage for the deadly error.
Ah so the head pedophile in charge demanded something unreasonable, so they cut all the corners they could and ended up killing 123 children. Super cool. This is AI’s fault because…? That site had been operating as a school for a decade. They can’t blame flawed intelligence, it was their own gross negligence and lack of review.
You remember how DOGE cut a bunch of government funding by random keyword searches? And they ended up banning super important research into using gene editing as a life-saving tool because the work was being done on transgenic mice? And they searched “trans” and then defunded it?
So this is like that, except instead of funding being cut, they murdered 123 children.
More than 1,000 Iranian targets were hit within the first 24 hours
That is the impetus for careless results. But whether target selection was through darts thrown at a map, or really smart monkeys choosing, the danger of AI is believing it is sufficiently better than the first 2 approaches, and good enough to not review. Fine, pure demonic evil is behind the goals of US military, but AI is not going to reduce their evil in any way, and they will think it is a productivity booster for their goals.
Can you tell me what the AI system was specifically, how it failed, and why the operators didn’t catch it? The article is paywalled, AI is a broad term that can mean a lot of things, so I’m legitimately trying to understand the failures here.
I’m assuming you read the article. Or else your just apeing “AI bad” and assuming someone said “hey chatgpt what should I blow up?” In which case I guess nevermind.
I’m not sure they named the system. Rumour was Palantir systems, and Claude LLM used for target selection. There is some background of “outdated imagery” could have been basis of AI targetting. 10 years ago, it was a military site, but it was/should have been known it was no longer.
The part I quoted, and my first sentence is the relevant error. Valuing being fast instead of accurate is the core problem. The equal more hidden problem is complete indifference to just how evil their murders are.
Ah so the head pedophile in charge demanded something unreasonable, so they cut all the corners they could and ended up killing 123 children. Super cool. This is AI’s fault because…? That site had been operating as a school for a decade. They can’t blame flawed intelligence, it was their own gross negligence and lack of review.
You remember how DOGE cut a bunch of government funding by random keyword searches? And they ended up banning super important research into using gene editing as a life-saving tool because the work was being done on transgenic mice? And they searched “trans” and then defunded it?
So this is like that, except instead of funding being cut, they murdered 123 children.
trump should rot in prison till he dies.
That is the impetus for careless results. But whether target selection was through darts thrown at a map, or really smart monkeys choosing, the danger of AI is believing it is sufficiently better than the first 2 approaches, and good enough to not review. Fine, pure demonic evil is behind the goals of US military, but AI is not going to reduce their evil in any way, and they will think it is a productivity booster for their goals.
Can you tell me what the AI system was specifically, how it failed, and why the operators didn’t catch it? The article is paywalled, AI is a broad term that can mean a lot of things, so I’m legitimately trying to understand the failures here.
I’m assuming you read the article. Or else your just apeing “AI bad” and assuming someone said “hey chatgpt what should I blow up?” In which case I guess nevermind.
I’m not sure they named the system. Rumour was Palantir systems, and Claude LLM used for target selection. There is some background of “outdated imagery” could have been basis of AI targetting. 10 years ago, it was a military site, but it was/should have been known it was no longer.
The part I quoted, and my first sentence is the relevant error. Valuing being fast instead of accurate is the core problem. The equal more hidden problem is complete indifference to just how evil their murders are.
They also banned the group in the pentagon that worked on mitigating civilian causalties.