2026-04-10
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing.
The truth is far more worrying by Kevin T. Baker, read by Adam Sims.
On the first morning of Operation Epic Fury,
28th February, 2026, American forces struck the Shajarat Taibah Primary School in Minab in southern Iran,
hitting the building at least two times during the morning session.
American forces killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls, between the ages of 7 and 12.
Within days, the question that organized the coverage was whether Claude,
a chatbot made by Anthropic, had selected the school as a target.
Congress wrote to the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, about the extent of AI use in the strikes.
The New Yorker magazine asked whether Claude could be trusted to obey orders in combat.
Whether it might resort to blackmail as a self-preservation strategy,
and whether the Pentagon's chief concern should be that the chatbot had a personality.
Almost none of this had any relationship to reality.
The targeting for Operation Epic Fury ran on a system called Maven.
Nobody was arguing about Maven.
Eight years ago, Maven was the most contested project in Silicon Valley.