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US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
This is the first documented case of a near-miss at scale, and it matters because no one can claim hallucination is just a research-stage problem anymore. The real story is that critical decision-making still needs human validation, and your AI system's output shouldn't move policy without it. For builders: this is what happens when you treat a language model as an oracle instead of a tool. For enterprises deploying at scale: build review loops into the product itself.