Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘Was it AI that selected the Iranian school where at least 168 people were killed, mostly children? Investigations by three major US news organisations – the New York Times, CNN and Reuters – have now concluded the school was hit by US bombs. Reuters identified a “double tap”, two strikes, 40 minutes apart. The open-source investigative site Bellingcat yesterday published a report that reviewed verified footage and identified the missile which hit the school to be a US Tomahawk. That report has now been independently replicated by the New York Times.

I grew up in Wales and felt the chill every time we passed a road sign to “Aberfan”. My dad would recount the story of the day a coal tip fell on the town’s school killing 144 children. The name of Aberfan is still burned into the nation’s collective memory more than half a century on. But the slaughter of an entire community’s children in the town of Minab in a single day? It’s an obscenity that’s caused barely a ripple of anguished outrage.

We now need to know: was AI involved in targeting this school? This is a crucial question. Were those children the collateral damage of an AI hallucination? We all know how unreliable these large language models are. We’ve all been served a bullshit answer based on a fabricated link. Now apply this to war. We can’t let this moment pass. Minab, like Aberfan, is a place that should be burned onto our brains.’ (from her Substack)