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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র reposted
Hagen Blix
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Stupid AI usage almost started WW3 Cool. Boy, am I glad that we're totally talking about the right kind of existential risk, like escalating interimperial rivalries, or climate change, and not this "AI will go rogue" stuff... right? www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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- A US special operations command analyst used an AI chatbot to assess a Chinese ship's manifest, and it falsely reported nuclear weapons components.
- Armed troops were preparing to board the vessel and planes were airborne before officials caught the error and halted the operation.
- The chatbot fused open-source and classified signals intelligence, and the analyst then used AI again to package the report for wide dissemination.
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