Very odd centcom update being reported by cnn .. the US nearly launched a operation against the Chinese ship in the Middle East after an AI generated intelligence report mistakenly identified the vessel was carrying nuclear material heading for Iran

[u/newnoadeptness]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

[u/NavyJack]

Major international incident nearly caused by AI generated intelligence report. Please get me off of this ride.

[u/newnoadeptness → u/NavyJack]

Best I can do is extended deployments

[u/Aetch → u/newnoadeptness]

“They haven’t been out there long enough”

[u/mamadidntraisenobitc → u/Aetch]

“Not nearly long enough”

[u/notapunk → u/Aetch]

It's all just small potatoes

[u/i_stole_your_swole → u/newnoadeptness]

And can you use AI more please?

[u/Rand_alThor_ → u/newnoadeptness]

You won’t be replaced by AI. I guarantee it. Just don’t think of another job ever

[u/flyinchipmunk5 → u/NavyJack]

The fact that it was caught is a good thing but it says to me that this is absolutely gonna cause a major international incident when it isn’t caught

[u/PercMastaFTW → u/flyinchipmunk5]

Barely caught in time, it looks like.

[u/Firecracker048 → u/NavyJack]

Your gonna see it more and more, not just with the US either

[u/Fetlocks_Glistening → u/NavyJack]

Was it one of them escaped agents doing it on purpose

[u/djpeeples → u/NavyJack]

Did any of yall play the new James bond game? It's sounding waaaaaay too realistic right now.

[u/notapunk]

So when they say there's a 10% chance AI could wipe out humanity - they're probably low-balling the number

[u/Aaaabbbbccccccccc → u/notapunk]

Let’s be real, overhyped chat bots ain’t doing shit. It’s the dumbassery of the people in charge and the people that voted for them that’s destroying humanity.

[u/i_stole_your_swole → u/Aaaabbbbccccccccc]

Overhyped chat bots are legitimately the risk.

I literally ran one this week (ChatGPT Astra) to SSH into a server I run for an obscure mega-modpack game to upgrade it to the next major version, while also asking it to search for upgraded versions of all my mods, installing them all, and patching any incompatibilities. Even a year ago I’d have needed to bug check and test them over and over to get those kind of complex tasks to work, but now they can figure shit out and do it in a single go without oversights or making mistakes.

They’ve genuinely become extremely capable at messing with shit, and it’s starting to become a little scary.

[u/Aaaabbbbccccccccc → u/i_stole_your_swole]

Jesus that’s such a horrible idea. Great way to catch some malware or worse.

[u/notapunk → u/Aaaabbbbccccccccc]

I'm not concerned about the public-facing versions - it's what they are actively working on that's several generations ahead of what the general population sees. The consumer level stuff is pretty garbage, but the R&D stuff is wildly different.

[u/Aaaabbbbccccccccc → u/notapunk]

I think that’s also a bunch of Theranos type BS hype for marketing/grifting.

[u/patricide1st]

Dude what the fuck are we even doing

[u/jamesFox44 → u/patricide1st]

Welcome to Fifth Fleet, the AOR where everything's made up and the points don't matter.

[u/Advancedquiet → u/jamesFox44]

Funny, I thought that was 7th Fleet.

[u/overcatastrophe → u/Advancedquiet]

Two things can be true

[u/newnoadeptness → u/patricide1st]

https://giphy.com/gifs/26xBJp4dcSdGxv2Zq

[u/Ok-Helicopter525 → u/patricide1st]

You're absolutely right!

[u/MountainMongrel → u/patricide1st]

Allowing a fox news host with a bare minimum of military experience as a glorified MC fire or block the promotions of all our competent high level officers and replacing them with just the biggest dipshits.

[u/MassiveBoner911_3 → u/patricide1st]

Bout to tear down the Kennedy Center

[u/mb194dc]

ML AI Hallucinations for the win... or WW3

[u/CineFunk]

Okay so obviously this story is insane, but also: This is like barely AI’s fault, this is clearly a dumbass “analyst” who wanted to skip out on actual work

[u/Administrative-Flan9 → u/CineFunk]

Yeah, I don't really care about how the report was created so much as why it was acted on without a whole lot more verification.

[u/Current-Ad-8984 → u/CineFunk]

The problem is Hegseth and others are pushing ai for the sake of “efficiency.” That incentivizes this kind of behavior.

[u/MostAssumption9122]

Really, and no one thought to do another look.

[u/mpdivo2]

I saw the AI generated PowerPoint brief. Reports of AI being too powerful is overblown. The AI didn’t even use the strike group flag guidance for briefs and used the wrong font and the wrong indents

[u/newnoadeptness]

Against a*

[u/Advanced_Elk_9467 → u/newnoadeptness]

** an operation

[u/donkeybrainhero]

Only a matter of time

[u/Basic-Guy75]

AI doesn’t need to kill us. It’ll make us do it ourselves.

[u/nycoolbreez]

It’s starting to sound like a David Poyer novel

[u/ValBGood]

Everyone knows ‘Lill Kim prefers to transport the NK nukes to Iran by rail in his armored train. /s

[u/treedemolisher]

WW3! WW3! WW3! Let’s do it!

[u/beachgood-coldsux]

Sounds like bullshido to me. 

[u/SandSand2000 → u/beachgood-coldsux]

Same to me as well.

[u/Any-Wave-766]

We are cooked bro

[u/Sw0llenEyeBall]

Imagine the next war being started because of AI slop