CNN: Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say
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CNN: Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say
"... The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.
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 (AI) ..."
https://lite.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship
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