One hallucinated component list almost started a US military strike

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A US military unit nearly authorized a strike based on intelligence that included AI-generated fabrications about Chinese nuclear components. The incident is a precise case study in what happens when LLM outputs meet high-stakes decision chains without adequate verification.

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