A false intelligence report produced with an AI chatbot wrongly claimed a Chinese ship carried nuclear parts, nearly leading the US military to intercept the vessel in the Middle East.
A special operations command analyst used a chatbot combining open-source data with secret signals intelligence, creating an inaccurate standard report that bypassed review before operations began.
The incident highlights growing concerns over AI use in targeting, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushes the Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy across military operations.