CNN reported that the U.S. military aborted an armed operation against a Chinese vessel this spring after discovering the underlying intelligence had been hallucinated by an AI chatbot. A Special Operations Command analyst had queried the tool to synthesize open source and classified data; it misidentified the ship's cargo manifest, and the false findings circulated through command channels. Experts say the Pentagon must add safeguards to AI systems rather than slow adoption.
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