Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school(bloomberg.com)
949 points by devonnull 21 days ago | 534 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • ↓AI is being used as a scapegoat to deflect blame from human decision-makers
  • ~Both military incompetence and AI's amplifying effect on bad decisions are true simultaneously
  • ↑Humans must be held criminally accountable; AI cannot absorb responsibility for killing children
  • ↓The article sanitizes what is effectively mass murder or a war crime
  • •Focus should extend to other issues like the second/third strikes on first responders