The U.S. military came close to intercepting and boarding a Chinese vessel in the Middle East this spring after an intelligence report wrongly said the ship was carrying components linked to a nuclear weapons programme, CNN reported.
The intelligence came from the U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific in Hawaii, CNN reported.
An analyst used a chatbot to examine information about the Chinese vessel’s manifest. The material included publicly available information, classified signals intelligence and other data held by the U.S. government.
The AI system wrongly identified the cargo as components linked to a nuclear weapons programme. The analyst then used the system to help prepare the findings as a standard intelligence report.
The report was circulated through military channels but was later found to be wrong.
One source described the assessment as “entirely false” and said it had “almost started a war”, according to CNN.
The intelligence report led the U.S. military to prepare an
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