AI Hallucination Almost Started a War: US Warplanes Were Already Airborne Over Fabricated Intel
A CNN exclusive reveals a US Special Operations Command analyst used an AI chatbot to synthesize intelligence, and the AI hallucinated that a Chinese vessel carried nuclear weapons components. Armed operations were set in motion and military aircraft were already airborne before the mission was aborted at the last minute, narrowly averting a US-China conflict. The near-miss exposes how human oversight lags behind the military’s accelerating AI adoption.
