Pentagon review: overreliance on Palantir Maven AI contributed to strike that killed 123 Iranian children

五角大楼内部审查：过度依赖 Palantir Maven AI 系统导致误击伊朗学校、123 名儿童死亡

A Bloomberg investigation cites an unreleased Pentagon review that blames three failures for the February strike on an Iranian elementary school that killed over 150 people, including 123 children. The first was overreliance on Palantir's Maven Smart System: operators expected it to flag stale intelligence, but it recommended the site—still labeled an IRGC facility—as a day-one target. The other two were bad intelligence and outdated satellite imagery. The school had been physically separated from an adjacent base by 2017, with playground markings visible in 2018 imagery, yet databases were never updated. An analyst flagged the change in 2019, but the note stayed in a system disconnected from targeting databases. The pace of the opening assault—over 1,000 targets in 24 hours—squeezed verification time, and civilian-harm teams had shrunk from 10 people to one. A UN fact-finding mission this week called the strike a war crime. Palantir says it is not responsible for underlying data quality and has since added features to re-review intelligence for disqualifying factors. Trump has denied U.S. responsibility, claiming Iran may have done it. The full Pentagon report has been largely complete for months but remains unreleased.

Why it matters: A Pentagon probe directly blames Palantir's Maven system for a catastrophic strike, hitting all three HKR axes. The score is capped slightly because Gizmodo is a secondary source and the event is primarily a military story, but the AI failure lesson carries direct industry war...