Pentagon: Palantir AI Overreliance Led to Strike Killing 123 Iranian Children
Pentagon reviewers say overreliance on Palantir’s Maven AI helped a US strike kill 123 Iranian schoolchildren.
In February, two Tomahawk missiles hit Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, killing more than 150 people, including at least 123 children. Officials cited by Bloomberg said an unreleased Pentagon review found overreliance on Palantir’s Maven Smart System, which recommended the site because stale records still labeled it an IRGC facility. Outdated imagery, analyst notes kept off the targeting database, and civilian-harm teams cut by roughly 90% meant nobody on those teams reviewed Minab before launch. A UN fact-finding mission said there were reasonable grounds to treat the strike as a war crime; Washington has not accepted responsibility, and Palantir says the government owns data quality.
- Minab school strike killed at least 123 children on opening day.
- Maven recommended the site using outdated IRGC facility records.
- Civilian-harm staff had fallen about 90%, to fewer than 20.
- UN mission found reasonable grounds for an indiscriminate-attack war crime.
- Palantir says it does not own the underlying intelligence quality.
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Back in February, two Tomahawk missiles hit Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in the southern Iranian town of Minab on the opening day of the Iran war. The blasts killed more than 150 people, including at least 123 children. Earlier reporting already pointed to outdated targeting data and raised questions about whether artificial intelligence had a role in the mix-up.
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