On Wednesday evening, the news began to trickle out that an ongoing military investigation found that the United States was responsible for the missile strike on an Iranian school that killed at least 175 people.

Most of them, little girls.

It's one of the worst instances of collateral civilian damage caused by the U.S. military

in the last couple decades.

I called up Steve Feldstein, who served in the State Department in the Obama administration

and studies technology and national security at the

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

It reminded me immediately of the strike during NATO engagement in the former Yugoslavia against

the Chinese embassy back in the early 2000s.

And so my first question when I heard about this was, well,

one, was the U.S. responsible for this attack? And then two, if so, what series of errors occurred

so that a school was targeted and destroyed as opposed to a legitimate military installation?

And then third, given the topic of what we are talking about today,

was this error a function of artificial intelligence

or some other related software program that had gone awry?

Do we have any idea whether or not artificial intelligence was used in the targeting or execution of this strike?

All we know so far is a reporting that's come out from a few news outlets, particularly the New York Times.

And what has been indicated there so far is that most likely this was a result of human error, a result of outdated

information supplied by the Defense Intelligence Agency that mislabeled the school as part of the

Naval Base, which in fact it was 10 years prior. Based on what I've heard from that, it would

indicate to me that this is not an AI issue.

In fact, if anything, I would have guessed that AI could have helped in terms of vetting

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