🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Minab school was on America's pre-approved target list, a human steered the Tomahawk the whole way in, and it was hit THREE TIMES... That is the case against the Pentagon's preliminary finding that artificial intelligence picked the wrong building. Anthony Aguilar spe
Why now
Thesis: AI targeting accountability debate in defense
Catalyst to watch: Pentagon investigation findings
Main risk: Contested account, unverified claims
Why it matters
Dispute over AI targeting in a strike raises accountability questions for defense AI procurement.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Minab school was on America's pre-approved target list, a human steered the Tomahawk the whole way in, and it was hit THREE TIMES... That is the case against the Pentagon's preliminary finding that artificial intelligence picked the wrong building. Anthony Aguilar spent years on the boards where targets get argued over, and the process he knows doesn't allow for the story being told. A strike carrying that much civilian risk climbs the chain to the four-star for sign-off, a Tomahawk has loiter time and an operator who can abort a minute before impact, and the Persian Gulf coast is among the most watched terrain on earth: "it wasn't the fog and friction of war, there was no one in extremis. It was a deliberate decision, and that's a fact" Someone accepted the children as the price of a target they believed was there, and then approved it again. The country should DEMAND that name. @WeTheBrandon
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