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 m ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1701#7982)
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say
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