AI chatbot’s false nuclear warning nearly triggered US-China war in West Asia

What actually went wrong? One source described the report as “entirely false”. Another source told CNN that it “almost started a war”. The incident raised the possibility of a serious confrontation between the US and China had the military acted on the faulty intelligence. A Special Operations Command analyst fed information about the ship’s manifest into a chatbot. The underlying intelligence came from US Special Operations Command Pacific in Hawaii. CNN could not determine whether the AI tool was a commercial chatbot or an internal government system. The analyst fed the chatbot a mix of classified signals intelligence held by…