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Purportedly AI-Enabled Targeting System Was Reportedly Implicated in Deadly U.S. Strike on Iranian Primary School

February 28, 2026

During Operation Epic Fury, reports suggest a tragic incident occurred at Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, Iran, resulting in the loss of at least 150 lives, many of them children. The school was reportedly on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site due to potentially outdated target data. Preliminary findings indicate the use of Palantir's Maven Smart System, possibly integrated with Anthropic's Claude, in the targeting workflow.

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Alleged deployer
united-states-military, united-states-department-of-defense, united-states-central-command
Alleged developer
palantir, anthropic
Alleged harmed parties
teachers, students, shajareh-tayyebeh-primary-school-community, shajareh-tayyebeh-primary-school, minors, iranian-teachers, iranian-schoolchildren, iranian-civilians, general-public-of-iran, general-public, educators, educational-communities, minab-school-strike-victims-and-families

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1492

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