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Sources: the US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components in the Middle East (CNN) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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- An analyst at US Special Operations Command Pacific asked an AI chatbot to fuse open-source and secret signals intelligence about a Chinese ship's manifest.
- The bot returned that the vessel was carrying nuclear weapons components for Iran; armed US troops were preparing to board and military planes were already in the air.
- Officials caught the error just before the intercept, and CNN could not confirm whether the chatbot was a commercial product or a US government tool.
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