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Overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school – Pentagon
This is the moment the field stops theorizing about autonomous weapons and starts accounting for actual casualties. A government admitting AI contributed to a strike on a civilian school creates precedent for liability and scrutiny. For builders: the weapons adjacency tax just got real. For policy and regulation: expect aggressive posturing from every administration in the next cycle, starting with rules on AI in targeting systems.