New blog: The Pentagon, China, AI and PHANTOM-B https://shostack.org/blog/the-pentagon-china-ai-and-phantom-b/ CNN has an explosive story with US military having a close call after using AI for false intelligence report. There were planes in the air and the United States was ready to initiate military action against a Chinese ship: 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) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was. The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations. (1/10)