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U.S. military struck an Iranian elementary school killing at least 175 people, many children, during a military operation that used AI-powered targeting systems including Palantir's Maven platform enhanced with Anthropic's Claude AI to identify and prioritize targets.
On February 28, 2026, during the first hours of U.S.-Israeli military operations against Iran called Operation Epic Fury, a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile struck the Shajarah Tayyiba elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing at least 175 people including scores of children. The school had been incorrectly identified as either a factory or arms depot and was on an approved U.S. target list. The U.S. military was using Palantir's Maven Smart System, powered in part by Anthropic's Claude AI, to mass process intelligence and identify potential targets. Maven suggested targets, issued precise coordinates, and prioritized targets according to importance, enabling the military to destroy thousands of sites in just days. The school had previously been part of an Iranian naval base but had been walled off since 2015 with separate entrances added. Military investigators believe the strike was likely due to outdated intelligence data and an intelligence error on target location. The incident has drawn international condemnation and Human Rights Watch has called for a war crime investigation.
Domain classification, causal taxonomy, severity scores, and national security assessments were LLM-classified and may contain errors.
AI systems that fail to perform reliably or effectively under varying conditions, exposing them to errors and failures that can have significant consequences, especially in critical applications or areas that require moral reasoning.
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