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Back in February, two Tomahawk missiles hit Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in the southern Iranian town of Minab on the opening day of the Iran war. The blasts killed more than 150 people, including at least 123 children.

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HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US 'Kill Chain' That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202 ...

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-- Jason Leopold (@jasonleopold.bsky.social) 5:24 PM · Sep 18, 2026

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... Earlier reporting already pointed to outdated targeting data and raised questions about whether artificial intelligence had a role in the mix-up. And now, a Bloomberg investigation published Friday fills in more of the story, citing officials involved in an unreleased internal Pentagon review. Those officials said some Pentagon personnel knew within hours that the United States had hit the school, and they described a cascade of preventable failures that included an overreliance on an AI tool built by Palantir.

Too Much Trust in AI

According to the officials who spoke to Bloomberg, some personnel inside U.S. Central Command leaned too hard on the artificial intelligence inside the Maven Smart System, an AI-powered data integration and targeting platform developed by Palantir to accelerate intelligence analysis and decision-making.

The Defense Department has reportedly made the software tool a cornerstone of military operations over the past year.
Several former senior officers now work for Palantir, including some with high-level clearances at Centcom's Tampa headquarters. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-22 01:44 PM | Reply

Our own Judgement Day will most likely spring from uncontrolled, unsupervised, military research into fire and forget automatous weapons, like drones and robots. Once an enemy is on the ropes, all will be fair, and that will of course include Nukes. Either we embrace the rule of law, or we are subject to the law of the jungle, and of course, America, at the food chain today, won't be there forever.

#2 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-09-23 06:04 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Just when Trump wants to allow AI to be used without any guardrails...

OCU

#3 | Posted by OCUser at 2026-09-23 11:48 AM | Reply

'Reasonable Grounds' to Believe US Strike on Iran School Amounts to War Crime
www.military.com

... Experts commissioned by the U.N.'s top human rights body say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including on a school in the southern city of Minab. ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-23 12:32 PM | Reply

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