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AI Error May Have Contributed to Girl's School Bombing in Iran

https://thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai-error-girls-school-bombing/
42•apolloartemis•2h ago

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WarOnPrivacy•1h ago

     "The immediate theory is that the AI program included the
     school’s position based on older, archived intelligence. 

     The logic behind the launch, and the mechanics of who
     authorized it is unclear."
Is this a "We don't know what's in the black box" scenario?
muddi900•42m ago
It is a way to absolve responsibility
EFreethought•27m ago
Companies are spending billions so they can say the dog ate their homework.
moogly•21m ago
Easier and cheaper to just say "they were Hamas/Hezbollah".
michaellee8•39m ago
I suppose they are vibe-targeting now
readitalready•39m ago
I bet Anthropic has logs of whatever prompt was used to determine targeting the girls elementary school and can find out if they were directly responsible for their deaths through AI.
walletdrainer•37m ago
Wasn’t Hegseth pretty clear that the logic behind murdering Iranian children was to prove that he isn’t “woke”?
readitalready•34m ago
Indeed. We all know, just based on his proclamation of support for terrorizing the Iranian people the other day, that the US is perfectly willing to target and kill entire schools full of children.

Killing 150+ elementary school girls was no accident. Do not let them get away with claiming it was an "error". They purposely targeted an elementary school filled with little girls to kill them.

b00ty4breakfast•10m ago
the US military has never had any real qualms about murdering innocent civilians; they've just had a problem admitting it out loud to the public.

You'll recall the multiple wedding parties that were massacred by drones during the Obama administration, or the Winter Soldier testimonies from Iraq and Afghanistan ca 2008 or the original Winter Soldier investigation in 1971 or the infamous My Lai massacre ca 1968.

Hegseth is skipping the normal ritual of denial and fake regret but this event is firmly within a well-documented lineage going back decades.

anonymouscaller•37m ago
Funny how Anthropic's press team has been working overtime to ensure the public they're the AI on the right side of history, yet that's anything further than the truth...
tdeck•26m ago
When you choose to serve the American military, knowing both its history and the fact that it's been facilitating at least one genocide over the past few years, you can't just claim "we didn't want anything bad to happen".
slopinthebag•35m ago
The final boss of "I don't look at the code"
thefz•17m ago
The final boss of "I don't care about nonwhite human lives"
lelanthran•33m ago
This resolves nothing.

The one side will claim unintentional target, scapegoating the AI in the process.

The other side will claim the AI is a scapegoat.

Both sides can be true at the same time, regardless of whether it was intentional, AI error or human error.

lysace•31m ago
It’s an online-only local news site/blog for Worcester, MA. Seemingly all stories are credited to two writers.

There is literally no information about the site, who runs it, the writers etc.

There are no named sources in the story.

Huh.

giacomoforte•29m ago
This AI risk is the same as with Tesla's Autopilot a couple years back...

People believe for some reason that the AI is 99.99% correct and the warning not to trust it too much is just legalese.

stevenhuang•26m ago
What's up with sites detecting adblock and popping up modals so you can't even interact with the page anymore?

Firefox and Chrome on Android.

Guess that's hint enough that this outfit is garbage and not reputable. Flagged and added to domain block lists.

dodomodo•25m ago
The statement is complete speculation, there is no proof at all. And mistarting was a thing way way before as
zarzavat•9m ago
This is not an "AI error". This is a human decision to use known unreliable AI for waging war, in full knowledge that civilian death is an inevitable consequence.

If you decide your strike locations using a pair of dice, it's not a "dice error" when you blow up a school.

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