AI hallucinations: the near-strike on fabricated intel
Can a language model's confident output survive contact with a high-stakes decision chain? This episode works through a case where a US military unit nearly authorized a strike on an intelligence packet containing AI-generated specifications for Chinese nuclear components that do not appear to exist. The position taken is blunt: hallucination is the model working as designed, and the real failure was upstream, in a pipeline that let unsourced claims sit in the same font and folder as verified human analysis. You walk away able to argue against three common beliefs, explain provenance tagging…
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