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Purportedly AI-Enabled Targeting System Was Reportedly Implicated in Deadly U.S. Strike on Iranian Primary School
- Occurred
- Feb 28, 2026
- Published
- Mar 11, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
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said the school was on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site amid possible reliance on outdated target data.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
Developers
- Palantir
- Anthropic
Deployers
- United States military
- United States Department of Defense
- United States Central Command
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
Harmed parties
- Teachers
- Students
- Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School community
- Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School
- Minors
- Minab school-strike victims and families
- Iranian teachers
- Iranian schoolchildren
- Iranian civilians
- General public of Iran
- General public
- Educators
- Educational communities
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 95%
Rationale: AI-enabled targeting system implicated in deadly strike causing mass civilian casualties.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8