CNN reports the US military nearly intercepted a Chinese ship based on an “entirely false” AI-generated report.

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: killer robots, mass surveillance, and red lines According to CNN,the US military had planes in the air and armed personnel ready to board a Chinese shipin the Middle East this spring because of an intelligence report that it carried parts for a nuclear weapons program. The only problem? Their sources say that report was anAI-bot-generatedhallucination: 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. A free daily digest of the news that matters most.