theguardian.com: Purportedly AI-Enabled Targeting System Was Reportedly Implicated in Deadly U.S. Strike on Iranian Primary School
During Operation Epic Fury, U.S. forces reportedly struck Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, Iran, killing at least 150 civilians, many of them children. Reporting said the school was on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site amid possible reliance on outdated target data. Palantir's Maven Smart System, reportedly integrated with Anthropic's Claude, was used in the campaign's targeting workflow
AI Incident Database · Incident 1492Operator lens (medium): inspect D1 (input boundary), D2 (output validation), D6 (autonomy oversight).
Event summary
During Operation Epic Fury, U.S. forces reportedly struck Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, Iran, killing at least 150 civilians, many of them children. Reporting said the school was on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site amid possible reliance on outdated target data. Palantir's Maven Smart System, reportedly integrated with Anthropic's Claude, was used in the campaign's targeting workflow
Linked entities
- palantir
organisation | 70%
- Anthropic
vendor | 70%
- united-states-military
organisation | 70%
- united-states-department-of-defense
organisation | 70%
- united-states-central-command
organisation | 70%
- teachers
organisation | 70%
- students
organisation | 70%
- shajareh-tayyebeh-primary-school-community
organisation | 70%
- shajareh-tayyebeh-primary-school
organisation | 70%
- minors
organisation | 70%
- iranian-teachers
organisation | 70%
- iranian-schoolchildren
organisation | 70%
- iranian-civilians
organisation | 70%
- general-public-of-iran
organisation | 70%
- general-public
organisation | 70%
- educators
organisation | 70%
- educational-communities
organisation | 70%
- minab-school-strike-victims-and-families
organisation | 70%
Related graph edges
| Edge | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |