It can however select a girls school as a military target, and did.

dredmorbius a day ago | parent | next [-]

AI seems to have been involved in the targeting process, so partial truth.

There may have been outdated information which incorrectly associated the prior use of the site "as either a factory or arms depot". See Wikipedia:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack#Analy...>

Citing "Iranian school was on U.S. target list, may have been mistaken as military site" (March 11, 2026) <https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/11/...>.

I'm not drawing conclusions one way or the other, but there do seem to have been multiple factors at play, and assigning full responsibility to use of AI seems suspect.

Which isn't the same as saying AI isn't at fault; e.g., an AI might challenge a dated assessment of a prospective target's role or status, as might a human-in-the-loop target assessment team and process.

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dTal a day ago | parent | prev [-]

...did it really, though?

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dofm a day ago | parent [-]

Yeah, it did. I don't think this is really in doubt.

Especially since the military refuse to confirm it had any human oversight, which after all would have been a routine thing to talk about before AI targeted things — which is why we have the phrases "fog of war", "human error", "unfortunate mistake", etc.

It will take a while to shake out — we won't know for sure for a decade, I suspect, but it seems very likely this will prove to be an AI error.

	▲	dTal a day ago \| parent [-]
		Looks more like standard decision-washing finger pointing to me. "AI did it" is both hypey and also conveniently distracts from an uglier reality: >Palantir Technologies [built] Maven into a targeting infrastructure that pulls together satellite imagery, signals intelligence and sensor data to identify targets and carry them through every step from first detection to the order to strike. >The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that, according to CNN, had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound and converted into a school, a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest. A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...