Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[Uncle Rico]

Good news on this front.  We're looking at chemtrails according to the Director of HHS.

[Jockey]

A false intelligence report claimed a Chinese ship was carrying parts of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, according to a CNN exclusive published Friday.

A U.S. military operation to "intercept" the ship was nearly underway when officials learned the report was generated by artificial intelligence and was inaccurate, according to the report. The mistake, if acted upon, could have started a war between the U.S. and China, a source told the outlet.


The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.


It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also "almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

Across the US military and the intelligence community, officials are pushing to weave AI into nearly every facet of their work, from analyzing the huge volumes of raw intelligence the US collects and selecting targets for strikes, to more mundane applications like managing budgeting, logistics and supply chains.

[Hards Alumni]

You left the part out where the false intelligence report was generated by AI

[Jockey]

You left the part out where the false intelligence report was generated by AI

Paragraph #5.

[Hards Alumni]

Yes, you edited it.