AI didn’t almost trigger a war with China. The Pentagon’s blind faith in it did

Planes were already airborne over a claim that turned out to be false. The failure wasn't the algorithm, it was everyone who stopped double-checking it.

American military planes were already in the air. Armed personnel were preparing for a possible boarding of a Chinese vessel. Then, according to CNN reporting published Friday, more experienced analysts reopened the intelligence behind the operation and found that its central claim was false. CNN reported that an analyst with a military special operations command […]

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