Description: During Operation Epic Fury, U.S. forces reportedly struck Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, Iran, killing at least 150 civilians, many of them children. Reporting said the school was on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site amid possible reliance on outdated target data. Palantir's Maven Smart System, reportedly integrated with Anthropic's Claude, was used in the campaign's targeting workflow
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Palantir and Anthropic developed an AI system deployed by United States military , United States Department of Defense and United States Central Command, which harmed Teachers , students , Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School community , Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School , minors , Iranian teachers , Iranian schoolchildren , Iranian civilians , General public of Iran , General public , Educators , Educational communities and Minab school-strike victims and families.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Maven Smart System and Claude
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1492
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-02-28
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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Variants
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