<![CDATA[“A chatbot did not kill those children.]]>“A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.”

Maven, the program Google was forced to pull out of and Palantir took over, was the system that identified the girls’ school as a target.

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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

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the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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In-depth article detailing how the "kill chain" i.e. target acquisition and mission execution, has degraded in quality due to increased "efficiency" demands--and how that mindset is responsible for this tragedy.

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Kill Chain

On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

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(artificialbureaucracy.substack.com)

also, this is what we can expect more of (missed and misdirected hits), as "ai" is increasingly integrated into targeting evaluation.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115736792646413589/statuses/116336875883505378https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115736792646413589/statuses/116336875883505378Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:57:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “A chatbot did not kill those children. on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:25:25 GMT]]>@parismarx Accountability laundering is not a new problem in tech,¹ but LLMs are making it a thousand times worse because they are specifically designed to mimicry humans and human agency.

¹ Remember how Facebook claimed it wasn't their fault Cambridge Analytica collected personal data of hundreds of millions of people and used it to convince entire countries to vote for fascists? They claimed they told CA to delete the data, but let them keep the models trained on it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.circle.lt/users/dmitry/statuses/116336749802617312https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.circle.lt/users/dmitry/statuses/116336749802617312Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:25:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “A chatbot did not kill those children. on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:14:50 GMT]]>@parismarx I very much think that the LLM is an excuse for bombing the targets they were going to take out anyway.

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People who allowed a chat bot to choose missile targets in a nation that hasn’t attacked us killed those girls.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://newsie.social/users/Osteopenia_Powers/statuses/116336705661030755https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://newsie.social/users/Osteopenia_Powers/statuses/116336705661030755Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:14:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “A chatbot did not kill those children. on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:03:46 GMT]]>@parismarx a country with a historical record for murdering children decided to murder more children.

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