AI chatbot hallucination nearly triggered U.S. military operation against Chinese vessel
U.S. military aircraft were airborne this spring when officials discovered that intelligence driving a planned armed operation against a Chinese vessel was fabricated by an AI chatbot. A Special Operations Command analyst had used the chatbot to combine open-source and classified signals intelligence; the tool misidentified the ship’s cargo manifest and was later used to format an official-looking report that circulated through command channels before the operation was aborted.