{"id":380062,"date":"2026-09-18T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/faulty-ai-assisted-intel-nearly-set-off-us-military-op-on-chinese-ship-sources\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:00:15","slug":"faulty-ai-assisted-intel-nearly-set-off-us-military-op-on-chinese-ship-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/faulty-ai-assisted-intel-nearly-set-off-us-military-op-on-chinese-ship-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Faulty AI-assisted intel nearly set off US military op on Chinese ship: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/Bo-wbbnUCqo\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Faulty AI-assisted intel nearly set off US military op on Chinese ship: Sources\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bo-wbbnUCqo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.<\/p>\n<p>It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) \u2014 and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was. The report, according to one of the sources, was \u201centirely false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>0:00 How faulty AI-assisted intel almost caused a war<br \/>\n1:58 Military source: \u201cThere is no real guidance\u201d<br \/>\n4:05 AI expert reacts: \u201cNone of this is surprising\u201d<br \/>\n6:31 What can prevent this from happening again?<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>#News #ai #china<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. 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