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U.S. military nearly boarded a Chinese ship over a hallucinated AI intelligence report

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U.S. military nearly boarded a Chinese ship over a hallucinated AI intelligence report

The Decoder · Sep 19, 2026, 8:10 AM UTC

In the spring of 2026, the U.S. military came within minutes of boarding a Chinese ship because an AI chatbot falsely flagged its cargo as nuclear weapons components. Armed soldiers were ready, aircraft were in the air. The error was caught just before the operation kicked off.…