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CNN sources report that the US military almost intercepted a Chinese vessel in the Middle East this spring after an analyst used an AI chatbot to assess intelligence, which falsely claimed the ship carried nuclear weapons materials. Armed personnel and aircraft were already mobilizing before officials realized the report was based on a fabricated chatbot response and stood down.
According to CNN, a Special Operations Command analyst used an AI chatbot to combine open-source data with classified signals intelligence, and the tool misidentified a vessel's cargo as nuclear weapons components. The fabricated finding was reformatted by the same chatbot into an official-looking report and passed up the chain of command, prompting military aircraft to be deployed before the operation was called off at the last moment.
A US Special Operations Command analyst used an AI chatbot to help analyze intelligence about a Chinese vessel, and the tool wrongly concluded it was carrying nuclear weapons program components through the Middle East. The US military began preparing to intercept and board the ship with air support before officials realized the chatbot had misread the cargo data and the report was baseless.
During the recent conflict with Iran, a US special operations analyst used an AI chatbot to help produce an intelligence report claiming a Chinese vessel was carrying nuclear weapons components. The military mobilized to intercept the ship, with armed personnel and aircraft readied, before officials discovered the report was based on a hallucinated AI output and called off the operation.
US military branches confirmed to Senator Ron Wyden and Reuters that they have turned off advertising identifiers on service members' phones and computers. The Air Force disabled them two months ago, Special Operations Command did so recently, and the Army says mobile ad IDs have been off since earlier this year, with Windows devices blocked since before 2021.