Story reaches wider audience via Hacker News, Palantir named in headlines
6 Sep 22 3:03 PM · 1d ago · 1 article · 6 posts · 19 comments · 4 sources · development 6 of 6
Gizmodo's framing naming Palantir directly gains renewed traction on Hacker News days after the initial Bloomberg report, keeping the story in circulation with continued public scrutiny of the AI vendor.
Pete Hegseth US Secretary of Defense
Donald Trump US PresidentPalantir Technologies Maker of the Maven AI targeting system used by the PentagonBen Bartenstein and Krishna Karra Bloomberg investigative reporters
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 2 claims were published in its stretch
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"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 ." # USPol # Iran https:// gizmodo.com/pentagon-investiga…
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Pentagon investigators found an AI targeting system built by Palantir put an Iranian elementary school on the day one target list. 2 Tomahawks. At least 123 children. Hegseth had already gutted the civilian harm teams by 90%. Centcom went from ten people to one. Nobody looked. @bloomberg.com broke
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Sometimes cars crash, but per car there were only a handful of casualties.Sometimes airplanes crash and per event there were many casualties, which makes it high profile.While car crashes are often analyzed amateurishly, and little to no attempt is made in exact accounting of responsibilities, for traffic participants X,Y (or Z) and very seldom in…
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AI is already killing us. Previously this was just an Israeli thing, but now its spread to the world's largest military, which are controlled by some of the world's most stupid human brains Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children https:// gizmodo.com/pentagon-investiga…
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So "AI" screwed up and now he and musk want to use it to fly and land our airplanes in place of human air traffic controllers? Which is it? A screw up or something that can kill us all?
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"In the final days of February, the Trump administration demanded an overwhelming aerial assault. More than 1,000 Iranian targets were hit within the first 24 hours alone. That order compressed the time frame for finalizing targets, the officials said, instilling an urgency that — combined with gaps in underlying information about the site, cuts…
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"Inside Centcom, which conducted the US attack, some personnel relied too much on the artificial intelligence embedded in Maven Smart System, the officials said. Maven, which is made by Palantir Technologies Inc., allows users to view and coordinate complex military operations — from targeting to command and control — using AI-enabled software…
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The people that run those companies should be prosecuted for war crimes
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Oh? And what contributed to the double tap?This is decision laundering with AI, plain and simple. Go into any sufficiently "patriotic" forum and you won't have trouble finding people defending the strike to "break IRGC officer's spirit" or similar.I say, as I always keep saying, that powerful people are just like regular people and believe all the…
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A Pentagon report says over-reliance on AI tools contributed to the deaths of at least 123 Iranian children. Plus outdated intelligence, "compressed war planning," and gutted civilian protection units that never reviewed the target site. # AI # Pentagon https://www. latimes.com/world-nation/story…
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Isn't the ratio of correct/incorrect targets in this offensive significantly better than historical average, for any aerial campaign waged by any country, ever? The US hit something like 13,000 targets so far in 2026. I's remarkable to hit so many targets at standoff distances and only get ~3 wrong, and this 1 being a school that was wrapped by an…
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Any reliance on Palantir is an overreliance on Palantir. "Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children" https:// gizmodo.com/pentagon-investiga tors-say-overreliance-on-palantir-ai-tech-contributed-to-u-s-strike-that-killed-123-iranian-children-2000814477
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> It found the U.S. “failed in its obligation to do everything feasible to verify” that the school was a military objective and that the failure “went beyond mere negligence.” The report said the United States “directed the strikes at the building of the school while being aware of a substantial risk of striking a civilian object and acting…
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Overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school – Pentagon: https://www. bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ir an-school-attack/ Discussion: http:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9806430
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It's easy to blame the military and the higher-ups, after all they made this choice. But more relevant to HN, this couldn't have happened without technology professionals working for Palantir.> A Palantir spokesperson told Bloomberg the company “is not responsible for the underlying data nor identifying intelligence deficiencies” and that there is…
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Something that I feel like I should have realized earlier but didn't until last year was how unbelievably lazy everyone involved is.I knew they were stupid, I knew they had positions that I would consider racist, I knew that they were corrupt, but I guess I had assumed that they had worked for their corruption.But no, you have RFK Jr.'s HHS lazily…
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I'm not sure if it was any kind of official rule, but I worked at times in a JTAC capacity for troops in contact. I mention the last bit because it's very high stakes where seconds and minutes count a great deal more than when you do coordinated tactical strikes against strategic objectives like weapons caches. When I did that kind of work we had…
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In this case it sounds like AI may be more of a scapegoat. The incident of US almost boarding a Chinese ship due to an AI-assisted intelligent report claiming it was transporting nuclear weapons components[0] was more compelling for me in terms of direct AI usage imapact. Though again, the primary issue is of course people carelessly offloading…
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"A computer can never be held accountable / Therefore a computer must must never make a management decision" https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be...Except laundering our biases & discriminations, the unaccountability seems to be the purpose of a huge huge swarth of AI usage. To eliminate accountability. That sure seems like…
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If you want to understand the United States, or really most Western countries , just assume they don’t view non whites as people.It all makes sense. So what we had to blow up some savages to steal their oil. Whatever, you don’t expect Jeb to push his truck do you.The Russians , who have a different relationship to race than we do , have treated…
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> Officials said some users expected Maven to flag stale records or contradictions in the intelligence assembled for potential targets, though it is not clear why they thought the system would do thatThis is what happens when people who don't understand AI and its limitations embrace it wholeheartedly, thinking it's going to behave like The…
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Important context is that the context wasn’t even in a connected system. Unclear if the human analysts would have even caught this, or if they would have known to check this unconnected system.> Some US intelligence analysts took notice, the officials said. Bloomberg reported in June that one analyst detected changes to the site as early as 2019…
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Many people are commenting that AI is just a scapegoat here and really this is a story about military incompetence. What I think is probably more interesting is how AI enables incompetent people to do more damage than they would otherwise. Two things can be true at once, the military can be incompetent, and AI can be used to make targeting…
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I've been telling people for months that AI psychosis or mania must have been rampant during the Iran and Venezuela attacks... Just imagine what must be behind the news when there's the same manic SF energy in the hands of the ppl with the bombs :/EDIT: I say this as someone who's had my own moments of hypomanic energy, seemingly from the momentum…
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