AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying Highlight

The pattern that played out in Vietnam – a targeting system that could only measure its own performance and ended up believing its own output – is actually older than digital computing. Michael Sherry’s 1987 book The Rise of American Air Power traces it to the founding doctrine of precision bombing, whose confidence in its own methods made examining what those methods produced unnecessary. “Belief in success,” Sherry wrote, “encouraged imprecision about how to achieve it.”