U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed ​their investigation, two U.S. officials told Reuters.

Reuters was unable to determine more details about the investigation, including what evidence ‌contributed to the tentative assessment, what type of munition was used, who was responsible or why the U.S. might have struck the school.

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    I’d be willing to believe AI picked the target and no one is bothering to double check the targets it picks.

    But I’m also willing to believe this was an intentional act of terrorism meant to demoralize the Iranian people.

    Could go either way.

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      If that was the case and this school is the only ‘hallucination’, they must have extremely good AI

      More likely GI Schmoe put a dot on the wrong building

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        No, they double tapped the school. Killed the children, then waited for first responders to show up to kill them too. It’s either something cooked up by an AI or by a psychopath, there’s not a lot of room for this to be an honest mistake.

        Also, there’s this story.

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            The first responders being civilian instead of military is a pretty strong clue. Also a bunch of parents and neighbors showed up, which wouldn’t make any sense if it was a military target.

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                  I’m pretty sure they don’t, actually

                  Such a strike where they’re hitting hundreds of sites in a couple of hours with a multitude of planes in the air simultaneously is planned way in advance and carried out with very careful timing. Even bombs are pre-programmed for certain coördinates. There’s just no leeway for stuff like Tom Cruise grabbing the mic and radio’ing “oh no Roystar-5-9 I just saw a baby crawling inside that building, cancel your orders right now!”