Did AI-‘kill chain’ lead to deadly Iran school strike? What report claims

A volunteer searches through the rubble of Shajareh Tayyebeh school, shattered by a U.S. airstrike on Feb. 28, in Minab Outdated intelligence, a rushed targeting process and reliance on an AI-enabled system may have contributed to the deaths of more than 150 people, including at least 123 children, in a US missile strike on a school in Iran’s Minab in February.The findings do not establish that artificial intelligence independently selected the school as a target. Instead, investigators have identified a series of failures across the US military's targeting process, including outdated satellite imagery, intelligence that was not properly updated, reduced civilian-harm checks and reliance on the AI-enabled Maven Smart System to help process information and prioritise targets, according to a Bloomberg report.The Pentagon has not publicly accepted responsibility for the strike and has said the incident remains under investigation. The full findings of the probe, which began in March, have not been released.Maven, developed by Palantir Technologies, has become a central part of US military operations, combining information from more than 150 data sources to help personnel assess potent...