@adamshostack@infosec.exchange
2026-09-21 20:42 UTC
Now, it’s unclear from CNN’s reporting if it was a Chinese-flagged merchant ship, or a Chinese military vessel. (The other articles I’ve seen report on what CNN has reported, and have not developed new facts; I expect more will emerge.) While either would be bad, attacking a military vessel would be more likely to lead to a broader conflict. That broader conflict is yet more likely while the war with Iran has left the US military with depleted inventories of missiles and other supplies.
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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange 2026-09-21 20:42
Whatever sort of ship it was, the issue here is how the military is using AI, and here, I want to talk about PHANTOM-B and threat modeling LLM-centered applications. (You can get a broad overview from our PHANTOM-B blog post or from our whitepapers page.) The “O” in PHANTOM-B stands for Overreliance, and it means just that: relying on the model. Apparently, the command analyst had generated a report, and not checked the key facts. (3/10)