Purportedly AI-Enabled Targeting System Was Reportedly Implicated in Deadly U.S. Strike on Iranian Primary School
Description
During Operation Epic Fury, U.S. forces reportedly struck Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, Iran, killing at least 150 civilians, many of them children. Reporting said the school was on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site amid possible reliance on outdated target data. Palantir's Maven Smart System, reportedly integrated with Anthropic's Claude, was used in the campaign's targeting workflow
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- united-states-military
- united-states-department-of-defense
- united-states-central-command
- national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders
Alleged Developers
- palantir
- anthropic
Harmed Parties
- teachers
- students
- shajareh-tayyebeh-primary-school-community
- shajareh-tayyebeh-primary-school
- minors
- minab-school-strike-victims-and-families
- iranian-teachers
- iranian-schoolchildren
- iranian-civilians
- general-public-of-iran
- general-public
- educators
- educational-communities
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
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