Pentagon Review Links AI Targeting Failures to Deadly Minab School Strike

Pentagon investigators have found that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and excessive reliance on AI-assisted targeting contributed to a U.S. missile strike on a school in Minab, Iran, that killed 123 children, according to the reported findings. The emerging account places the February 28 attack at the center of a wider debate over how military AI systems, stale databases and weakened civilian-harm safeguards can combine in wartime targeting.