AI generated a fake intelligence report that almost started a war
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AI is now in the loop on decisions that can trigger kinetic escalation — a fake report nearly drove U.S. military action against a Chinese vessel, per CNN. Any organization feeding AI outputs into high-stakes workflows needs hard gates where humans validate sources and provenance before action, not after the fact.
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