'It almost started a war': US Army nearly boarded a Chinese ship after receiving an "entirely false" AI-hallucinated intelligence report saying it had nuclear arms on board
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An AI hallucination nearly triggered a military boarding over supposed nuclear cargo—this is the hard edge of “good enough” models in high-stakes workflows. Any organization using AI for intelligence or alerting needs a formal doctrine for human verification and escalation, not ad hoc “looks right” checks.
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