Very interesting comments about AI targeting in Iran [View all]

From a Substack post

This is a turning point in warfare that nobody is talking about enough. 🧵

In the first 24 hours of the US-Israel operation against Iran, AI systems suggested over 1,000 targets — that's 42 per hour. The human brain simply cannot evaluate targets at that speed.

And now there are serious questions about what happened to a primary school in Minab, Iran, where 110 children were killed. Experts believe AI may have flagged it as a military target based on outdated satellite imagery — the school was once part of a military complex, but had been a civilian school for at least 9 years.

Researchers are calling it "a catastrophic intelligence failure, whether AI-driven or human-driven."

The concern isn't just this war. It's what comes next. When machines suggest thousands of targets a day, humans develop what experts call "automation bias" — the machine's decision becomes the authority, and we lose the time needed for ethical deliberation.

One professor put it bluntly: "We must assume AI will come to play an ever-growing role in the decision to use force — the decision to initiate conflict — and that is terrifying."

We are watching the first AI war unfold in real time. Are we paying attention?

👇 What do you think — should AI ever be involved in military targeting?

https://substack.com/@adrianmacovei/note/c-226157088?r=1uz6fn&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action