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Incident 14922 Report
Purportedly AI-Enabled Targeting System Was Reportedly Implicated in Deadly U.S. Strike on Iranian Primary School
2026-02-28
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said the school was on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site amid possible reliance on outdated target data.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
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AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations
2026-09-18
In spring 2026, a U.S. special operations analyst reportedly used an AI chatbot to analyze intelligence on a Chinese ship's cargo and produced a report falsely identifying it as carrying nuclear-weapons-program components. The U.S. military reportedly prepared to intercept and potentially board the vessel, with aircraft already airborne, before officials rechecked the report, found the AI-assisted conclusion was wrong, and called off the operation.
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