Stupid Over-Reliance on Palantir AI Helped Lead to US Bombing of Iranian School
A deeply reported Bloomberg article by Ben Bartenstein and Krishna Karra details how the now infamous bombing of an Iranian girls elementary school was due to Pentagon officials deep over-reliance on Palantir’s Maven system. Inside Centcom, which conducted the US attack, some personnel relied too much on the artificial intelligence embedded in Maven Smart System, the officials said. Maven, which is made by Palantir Technologies Inc., allows users to view and coordinate complex military operations — from targeting to command and control — using AI-enabled software that fuses more than 150 different data inputs into a coherent set of information to inform commanders’ decisions.
- ▪A deeply reported Bloomberg article by Ben Bartenstein and Krishna Karra details how the now infamous bombing of an Iranian girls elementary school was due to Pentagon officials deep over-reliance on Palantir’s Maven system.
- ▪Inside Centcom, which conducted the US attack, some personnel relied too much on the artificial intelligence embedded in Maven Smart System, the officials said.
- ▪Maven, which is made by Palantir Technologies Inc., allows users to view and coordinate complex military operations — from targeting to command and control — using AI-enabled software that fuses more than 150 different data inputs into a co
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Reporting Confirms: Stupid Over-Reliance On Palantir AI Helped Lead To US Bombing Of Iranian Schoolgirls (Mis)Uses of Technology from the the-bombings-will-continue-until-the-ai-improves dept Tue, Sep 29th 2026 05:26am - Mike Masnick In the piece Dave Willner and I published last week about why “the apocalypse won’t be sexy,” we discussed how the real threat wasn’t “rogue” out of control AI tools, but rather humans doing stupid shit, sometimes because they stop thinking in the presence of these AI machines. A deeply reported Bloomberg article by Ben Bartenstein and Krishna Karra details how the now infamous bombing of an Iranian girls elementary school was due to Pentagon officials deep over-reliance on Palantir’s Maven system.
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