Shea Levin — text status

A false AI-assisted U.S. intelligence report nearly triggered a military operation against a Chinese ship during the Iran war after incorrectly identifying its cargo as components for a nuclear weapons program, CNN reports. U.S. forces were preparing to intercept and board the vessel, with aircraft already airborne, when officials took a closer look and discovered the intelligence was wrong. An AI chatbot used by a Special Operations analyst had misidentified the cargo, with one source calling the report “entirely false” and saying it “almost started a war.”