Guardian Investigation: Humans — Not AI — Caused the Iran School Bombing, Stale Target Data Fed to Pentagon's Maven Platform

The Guardian·high signal

A major Guardian investigation (370 points, 335 comments on HN) into the February 28 Minab school strike that killed 175-180 children concludes that stale human-curated intelligence data — not Claude or any AI system — was responsible for the targeting failure. The school was converted from a military site between 2013-2016, but the Pentagon's target database was never updated. The story exposes how 'AI blame' became a convenient deflection from systemic intelligence failures in the targeting pipeline.