Krystal Ball
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44,786 appearances
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6 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 3d ago
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US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report.
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The intelligence report circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran immediately set off alarm bells.
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A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
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The U.S.
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military
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Swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according four sources.
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According to two of those sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship.
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Military planes were in the air.
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It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report, put together by a special operations command analyst, and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence, and that a chat bot that
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The analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.
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The report, according to one of the sources, was quote, entirely false, but it also, quote, almost started a war.
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Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
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This is terrifying and completely insane.
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They had an
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AI chatbot that hallucinated intelligence about this ship carrying components for a nuclear weapons program, a Chinese ship.
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And we were this close to taking what would have been an extraordinary inflammatory action, risking war with China based on an AI hallucination.
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I mean, terrifying.
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that even that seems so wild though.
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I mean, even if it's not China, any sort of nuclear material coming in from many, I mean, you would think that that would be involvement all the way up to the highest level.
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And so, you know, the crazy thing is that according to a lot of research that's out there at this point, if this same intelligence analyst had gotten this intel from a human source, I bet you he
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