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Minab [elementary school massacre] site, which was cataloged as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facility due to outdated data, was fed into Maven with other candidates and came out as a recommended day-one target.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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    6 days ago

    They know it doesn’t win wars.

    I’m not sure of that. The myth that you can win wars from the air is a tenacious one, often propagated by people whose salary depends on not understanding the fallacy behind it.

    Israel doesn’t want a resolved war. Only pure destruction of Iran

    Israel and Iran both want to establish a (local) hegemony, and both are each other’s greatest local rival. Both want the other exterminated or at least reduced to a vassal that poses no threat to their nascent empire.

    The resolution offered by the JCPOA (2015) basically gave Iran free reign to resume their activities, so long as they weren’t a threat to the global powers. It’s quite understandable that Israel would be just as upset with that solution as Iran was previously with the sanctions.

    None of that excuses the cruelty either side inflicts (directly or indirectly) on the people in their way. Imperialism sucks.

    • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 days ago

      The resolution offered by the JCPOA (2015) basically gave Iran free reign to resume their activities, so long as they weren’t a threat to the global powers. It’s quite understandable that Israel would be just as upset with that solution as Iran was previously with the sanctions.

      This is Israeli lie repeated by genocide seekers often for public propaganda supporting hate for emotional war agenda, rather than any rational gains for Americans in serving Israel. It doesn’t make JCPOA perfect. But pure demonic evil to force a war instead of any arguments for compliance improvements and trading Iranian prosperity for more certainty over nuclear programs.