Post #1722864
2026-03-16 17:41 UTC
"20-year-old student Abdul-Rahman al-Rawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq in February 2024. At the time a top U.S. official said the strikes used AI targeting and the military later accepted al-Rawi was killed unintentionally – even sending his family a letter of condolence... CENTCOM’s chief technology officer, Schuyler Moore, declared the targets had been identified with support from [Palantir's] machine learning algorithms known as Project Maven."
https://airwars.org/the-first-civilian-confirmed-killed-in-an-ai-assisted-strike/?ref=forever-wars.com
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@buermann@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 03:18
"The benchmark was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, where roughly 2,000 people worked the targeting process for the entire war. During Scarlet Dragon, 20 soldiers using Maven handled the same volume of work. By 2024, the stated goal was 1,000 targeting decisions in an hour. That is 3.6 seconds per decision, or from the individual “targeteer’s” perspective, one decision every 72 seconds. The Maven Smart System is the platform that came out of those exercises." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying