US EditionAI Was Blamed for School Bombing, but Iran War’s Deadliest Error Was Likely a Human Failure
More than 150 children died after the school was not entered into the US military targeting database despite public records, highlighting human and procedural errors.
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Report: Human Error, Not AI, Blamed in Iran School Strike
Critics may have been too quick to blame artificial intelligence for the US missile strike that killed more than 150 people at an elementary school in Iran. Former military officials and others familiar with the operation tell Semafor the catastrophe at Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary was caused not by a rogue...
US lawmakers demand answers on bombing of Iranian girls school
A growing number of US lawmakers are demanding answers on the bombing of an Iranian girls' school by the American military that killed nearly 200 on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. On Wednesday, a group of Democratic Congress members attended a memorial on Capitol Hill in recognition of those who had lost their lives in the bombing, which an initial inquiry indicates was carried out by the US. Among those in attendance were Senator…
AI was blamed for school bombing, but Iran war’s deadliest error was likely a human failure
After the deadly Iran school strike, AI took the blame. But emerging evidence suggests outdated intelligence and human oversight failures—not rogue algorithms—may have driven one of the war’s worst tragedies
Exclusive: Humans — not AI — are to blame for deadly Iran school strike, sources say
The ScoopIn the days after the deadly US missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, one prime suspect emerged: artificial intelligence. Critics were eager to pin the more than 150 deaths on AI after reports on the use of Claude in the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro — and a public spat between the Pentagon and Anthropic — kicked off a global debate over the growing role of the technology in warfighting.The reality, according to former…
AOC Raises Alarm Over AI After US Missile Hits Iranian Girls School
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is advocating for a thorough investigation into the March 3rd US missile strike, which reportedly targeted a girls’ school in southern Iran, killing at least 170 kids, and is raising suspicions about the potential involvement of AI in misidentifying the location as a military target. The strike, which used a Tomahawk missile, was carried out at a time when US-Iran relations were escalating and targeted the port city…
A missile hit a school in southern Iran, killing 168 children, on the first day of a US-Israeli airstrike on February 28. This week, the United Nations announced it had launched an independent investigation into who was behind the attack. All eyes are on the White House. The Washington Post and The New York Times reported last week that the school was on a US target list and may have been mistaken for a military facility.
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