A Techdirt report confirms that the US bombing of Iranian schoolgirls was significantly enabled by a stupid over-reliance on Palantir's AI. The article argues that the real danger was not a rogue, out-of-control AI system, but rather humans doing stupid things because they stop thinking in the presence of these machines.
The report ties directly to an earlier Techdirt piece by Dave Willner and the author, which warned that the apocalypse won't be sexy. That piece framed the threat as human complacency and thoughtless delegation to AI, rather than a Terminator-style takeover. The bombing is now presented as a concrete example of that dynamic.
While the source does not provide independent reporting on the military decision-making, it explicitly states that the available reporting confirms the role of Palantir AI in leading to the strike. The key takeaway is that the failure was human, not technological: the AI did not act on its own, but people trusted it enough to stop exercising judgment.