> Target schools, blame vendor instead of operators.
> I fully expect this.
> Based on industry experience, where vendors were hired (and paid well) so that there would be, and I quote, "a throat to choke" when needed.
This could be the feeler for a full-on buck-passing.
The first refuge of a scoundrel is to blame someone else. "We didn't kill those kids. Faulty AI did it." A "perfect" setup. Or do you believe in a string of 10 accidental coincidences?
"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."
If you decide your strike locations using a pair of dice, it's not a "dice error" when you blow up a school.
People believe for some reason that the AI is 99.99% correct and the warning not to trust it too much is just legalese.
That "some reason" is science fiction plus some modern-day hype. The sci-fi trope of AI is that it's something more intelligent and perfect than any human (e.g. Data from Star Trek or even HAL, despite his malfunctions), and the people who are selling LLMs are happy to let influence people to over-estimate LLM capabilities.
There's no sci-fi model for subhuman and kinda crappy generative AI.
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.
There is literally no information about the site, who runs it, the writers etc.
There are no named sources in the story. It is, however "an exclusive".
Huh.
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.
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.
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.