AI-generated intelligence reportedly falsely flagged nuclear-weapons components on a Chinese ship

@MTSliveSITUATION DETECTED: A U.S. SOCOM analyst used AI to produce an intelligence report that hallucinated that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear-weapons components. The U.S. military was preparing to board the ship before the error was caught, per CNN.

@kyliebytesRT @MTSlive: SITUATION DETECTED: A U.S. SOCOM analyst used AI to produce an intelligence report that hallucinated that a Chinese ship in th…

@HeidyKhlaafThese are precisely the scenarios that I spend a significant time actually being concerned with. The adoption of unreliable, brittle, and inaccurate LLMs within safety-critical fields (e.g., defense and nuclear) is not only a concrete risk, but has catastrophic consequences.

@timnitGebruRT @HeidyKhlaaf: These are precisely the scenarios that I spend a significant time actually being concerned with. The adoption of unreliabl…

@kimmonismusAI hallucination almost started a war with China: According to CNN, an AI chatbot hallucination led the US military to prepare to intercept a Chinese ship after falsely identifying its cargo as nuclear-weapons components and almost started a war with China. Officials caught the error just before the planned operation, averting a potentially dangerous confrontation.

@kimmonismusokey, we need to make a bet which model you think they used :DS

@GaryMarcusholy fuck, AI almost caused an accidental war (yet another thing I warned the Senate about in 2023)

@TaylorLorenzThe chances of catastrophic harm from AI are so much more likely to come from government misuse/fuck up than some wild theoretical sci fi x risk scenario

@mmitchell_aiWe wrote about this foreseeably happening in our argument against developing fully autonomous AI last year (Sec 6). We specify the risk of “developing” not only “deploying” due to risk of agents moving outside human containment. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02649 With @evijit

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