Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say
- An AI-generated intelligence report falsely claiming a Chinese vessel carried nuclear weapons components nearly triggered a US military interception in the Middle East this spring, sources told CNN on Friday.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth released his 'Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy' in January to speed up military decision-making, aiming to put AI models in the hands of three million civilian and military personnel.
- An analyst used a chatbot to fuse open-source and secret intelligence, creating a 'hallucination' that circulated widely before officials identified the error just before the planned military operation.
- Any US military operation against the Chinese vessel risked spiraling into armed conflict between the two nations, while exposing the absence of standards for verifying AI-generated intelligence across the Pentagon.
- The military is rapidly adopting AI for targeting and logistics as policymakers warn of fatal mistakes, with critics noting a top Army cyber general recently warned AI caused a 'tenfold' spike in Pentagon vulnerabilities.
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US military chaos as AI chatbot 'almost started a war' inventing nuclear smuggling threat
A chatbot's bad guess about a cargo ship nearly dragged the U.S. into a shooting war with China this spring, CNN exclusively reported on Friday.A U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific analyst asked an AI chatbot to analyze a Chinese vessel's manifest in the Middle East amid the war with Iran, four...
False information generated by AI almost led to a US operation against a Chinese vessel, CNN reported
False information generated by AI almost led to a US operation against a Chinese vessel, CNN reported.The channel reports that the US military almost launched an operation against a Chinese vessel due to an erroneous intelligence report prepared using...
Exclusive: U.S. military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say
The intelligence report, circulated across the U.S. military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
The operation was stopped at the last moment, CNN learned from its sources in the US military.
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say
By Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. The US military swung into action with plans
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