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Posted by devonnull 5 hours ago

Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school(www.bloomberg.com)
https://archive.ph/0V37g
339 points | 174 commentspage 3
aliasxneo 4 hours ago|
Meanwhile, the Houthi's are trying to build missile technology with AI. We're only seeing the beginning of the consequences of an over-reliance on AI for military purposes.
ChrisArchitect 3 hours ago||
Related

Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739018

ck2 4 hours ago||
first, closer to 250 people were murdered by the $4 Million tomahawk

second, imagine if Iran even accidentally took out an elementary school in the US filled with 250 people

third, there was a human group that was supposed to review targets regardless of whomever picked them, the group was purposely disbanded, that's negligent homicide at best but more clearly a war crime on purpose

fourth, let's say it was 250 soldiers somehow among a civilian setting, IT CHANGED NOTHING, this war will change nothing, they cannot destroy pickaxe mountain, they will abandon the war in 2029 like the US abandoned Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and Korea, WAR CHANGES NOTHING, you cannot "War to Peace"

blikdak 3 hours ago||
A poor craftsman blames his tools.
kelnos 3 hours ago|
Responsibility can fall on multiple parties, including both the tool user and the tool builder.
eeem 3 hours ago||
Can't wait to read "Karp in Al-Quds: A Report on the Banality of Evil" in 2030.
jacquesm 4 hours ago||
I'm going to bet that absolutely nobody higher up will end up going to jail for this.
FireBeyond 4 hours ago||
Jail? I'm going to bet that absolutely nobody higher up will face any consequences for this. The outcome will be "we will review our processes".
bix6 4 hours ago|||
Hegseth should be in prison

https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-civilian-harm-mit...

recroad 4 hours ago||
Yup. Brown Muslims from another country are barely considered human. It's like killing an ant.
TacticalCoder 4 hours ago||
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verdverm 4 hours ago|||
The current regime came to power, in part, because of US/UK interference in the country going back to before WW2. There's a pattern of deposing existing leaders for those that are friendly to Western oil extraction. Our poor historical judgements led to much of our consternation today, and... we... keep... doing... it... #AmericanAmnesia

Once a bad regime is in power, there is less we can do about their internal affairs without sending in the troops again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_and_causes_of_the_I...

sashank_1509 4 hours ago||
Depressing, why should my tax dollars fund this incompetence and insanity. We need more accountability for such military decisions
igleria 4 hours ago||
so who is paying for this? "humans must always remain accountable for artificial intelligence (AI) decisions"
Dansvidania 3 hours ago|
a random musing:

I often see the argument "humans make mistakes too" when talking about AI, self driving cars, autonomous drones and such...

yes, they do, but most of the time they go to trial, there are consequences, there might even be justice.

when AI/self driving cars/drones make mistakes, which might very well be more rare in absolute [citation needed], there is (seems to me) a tendency to shrug it off, almost as if it were force majeure.

is it just me?

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