Outlets note Pentagon's AI push is accelerating despite the scare
3 Sep 18 4:26 PM · 5d ago · 22 articles · 77 posts · 59 comments · 6 sources · development 3 of 6
Ars Technica, Raw Story and the Daily Beast picked up the CNN report, tying it to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's January 'Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy' and noting the military's overall AI adoption is not slowing down.
“Hegseth's flawed artificial intelligence push nearly led the U.S. military into war with an Asian superpower, a bombshell new report has revealed.”
The Daily Beast
Pete Hegseth US Defense SecretaryKatie Bo Lillis CNN national security reporterUS Special Operations Command Pacific analyst Military intelligence analyst (unnamed)US Special Operations Command Pacific / Pentagon Agencies involved in the incident
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6 outlets US military AI blunder: False intelligence on Chinese ship ‘almost started a war,’ report claims
first by Hindustan Times, 5d ago · also The Times of Israel, Telegraph, Engadget, NDTV, Jerusalem Post
6 more headlines
- Faulty US intel report produced with AI almost started war with China over Iran The Times of Israel · 5d ago
- Fake AI intelligence used by US military ‘almost started war with China’ The Telegraph · 5d ago
- AI almost led the US military to start a war with China, report says Engadget · 5d ago
- How AI ‘almost started a war’ between US and China with false intel: Report Hindustan Times · 5d ago
- How A Faulty AI Report "Almost Started A War" Between US, China NDTV · 5d ago
- ‘Entirely false’ AI-generated intelligence report ‘almost started a war’ with China - report Jerusalem Post · 5d ago
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Report: US almost boarded Chinese ship over hallucinated AI arms report But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating. https:// arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/rep ort-us-almost-boarded-chinese-ship-over-hallucinated-ai-arms-report/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Hegseth’s flawed artificial intelligence push nearly led the U.S. military into war with an Asian superpower, a bombshell new report has revealed.
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> relatively poorly understood technologyPoorly understood? how convenient...LLMs are vectorial databases with losses that index statistically filled data, which uses a text interface to query such statistically filled data. The output is a string concatenation (statistically concatenated bit by bit).When the LLMs are queried (prompted), you can…
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Your mistake is thinking that people (in the government) care. Even before AI, civilians were being hunted in Iraq and Afghan and where not (that we only know over time and leaks). As long as the US public can swallow up whatever lies the government/political parties are spinning up, there's no reason to think they'd do anything different -…
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CNN: Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say "... The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. The US…
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Anyone this bad at their job would be fired, yet we keep shoveling money at these companies and their products
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And everyone remember when months back Anthropic said: You can use our tools, but don't use them for automated attacks - you have to keep a human in the loop because LLMs (including theirs) aren't reliable enough yet for solely making those decisions.Remember that? And they were widely mocked by the right for it.Yeah, well this is exactly what…
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lol, recently, I asked a Republican voter why they did it and they said because if Kamala was elected, we’d all be speaking Chinese or Persian by now… Allowing Fox News, conservative radio, and YouTube/social media to be nakedly partisan and establish the stupidest of worldviews has been a massive mistake.
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"armed ... US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air" "It was only just before ... officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately…
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Every time I ask Google anything the solution is always one of three of their top advertised choices
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There's an HN thread from yesterday in which people are extolling the ability of these vectorial databases to practice law because most of them don't understand how LLMs work. They assume that LLMs "understand" what they're being asked and what they're regurgitating.Lane Kiffin almost destroyed LSU's football program acting on legal advice from…
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Perfect process would at least have an analyst look at the data without using AI before planes are launched. Nothing the other comment said indicates the analyst looked at it using AI. To me it even sounds like AI flagged it -> analyst reviewed it on their own after it was flagged.
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Maybe AI is going to kill is all… via a meat proxy. Basically, having an LLM anywhere near decisions that might lead to military strikes is plain stupidity coupled with a stunning absence of ethics. In the 80s, Stanislav Petrov went against protocol and prevented a nuclear launch that no doubt would’ve ended with millions of people dead. Today?…
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AI doesn't have to do the job they task it with, the sales drone only has to convince the idiot manager that it can. The latter then fires anybody with institutional or subject matter knowledge so they can take credit for the promised miracle that will never happen.
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History shows the US has a lot of hallucinated intelligence leading to war. WMD in Iraq comes to mind. I personally don't believe US intelligence on practically anything. It is all tainted. The pressure to 'find targets' to justify a political objective is overwhelming and putting it behind a black box that refuses to show its homework to those in…
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jesus christ this is so annoying and asinine... the planet is not ready for all these AI's and incorporating them into the military is a MISTAKE, its like these people have never watched any scifi movie dealing with this...
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Hmmm wonder why # Trump banned CNN?! “The US narrowly avoided boarding a Chinese ship based on an “entirely false” US intelligence report. That erroneous intelligence, submitted by a US Special Ops analyst, suggested the Chinese ship was transporting nuclear arms program components. The US military was preparing to board the ship, with air…
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If I’m worried about AI doing major damage; this would be one of the stupid scenarios I could see happening.
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It's not the first time we are encountering this issue. We've seen it in other autonomous systems. Trains are an older one, cars are a newer one. As you move out of the lower levels, the operator has a tendency to assume the system is increasingly more capable than it is. In trains, its so bad that they generate fake signals that the operator…
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Ah, my "it’s great, BUT" of the day. Waiting for the but that will start a nuclear holocaust, that one will be funny
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It's really, really, really great that everyone working in cyber threat intelligence is also being pressured to create reporting with AI right now. For some older intelligence officials — even those who broadly support the use of AI inside the military — AI has put pressure on analysts to produce and disseminate intelligence faster, opening the…
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"I'm not saying we're not going to get our hair mussed!"
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> The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, ... Military planes were in the airA few months ago I listened to a talk a General (Admiral?) gave at CSIS where he said that the US purposefully announced their drone-hellscape plan for a Taiwanese invasion in order to force the PLA to reconsider their…
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david de duende houdt van kleine kinderen. Neemt ze mee naar het grote bos en leert ze daar Star Citizen spelen.
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