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Can machines be war criminals?

On the first day of its war against Iran, the United States killed 123 children when it targeted and struck an elementary school. The strikes, ultimately approved by humans, were facilitated by the US’s Maven Smart System, an AI-enabled software platform developed by Palantir Technologies that allows the military to aggregate, organize, and process…

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