Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Contributed to US Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children - Slashdot
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Two U.S. missiles hit an elementary school in Iran, killing over 150 people including 123 children on the first day of the Iran War. But Gizmodo notes that a new Bloomberg investigation cites U.S. officials involved in an unreleased internal Pentagon review who blame "a cascade of preventable fai...

According to the officials who spoke to Bloomberg, some personnel inside U.S. Central Command leaned too hard on [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… 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 that. The Minab [elementary school massacre] site, which was cataloged as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facility due to outdated data, was fed into Maven with other candidates and came out as a recommended day-one target. Target-list work that once took hours was condensed into minutes.

A Palantir spokesperson told Bloomberg the company “is not responsible for the underlying data nor identifying intelligence deficiencies” and that there is no evidence its software was at fault. Two people familiar with Palantir’s Pentagon contracts said the government keeps primary responsibility for the quality of the information that’s fed into Maven.

  • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
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    I’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing. I was talking about Iran backing Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli factions, which I’m pretty sure they didn’t exactly make a secret of. The JCPOA was very much lacking in restrictions in that department, because ultimately, it’s a local problem that the global powers didn’t care too much about. This was definitely a flaw in an otherwise good deal.

    You mention compliance, so I assume you mean Israel’s claim about the “secret” nuclear program? Yes, that one was a very transparent lie. Iran had very good reasons to comply and get the great powers off its case. They’d have been very stupid to risk throwing away diplomatic credibility by randomly breaking deals, even unofficial ones. They wanted the sanctions gone, after all, which is why they were absolutely transparent about their compliance.

    The alleged “secret” program had stopped in 2009 and been covered in the IAEA report. The director of the IAEA even said as much when Israel made that claim. They straight up fabricated a nuclear threat that wasn’t there to goad the US (well, Trump really) into supporting their genocidal ambitions. That is absolutely evil.