Military AI: Angel of our Better Nature or Tool of Control?
March 16, 1968, is one of the darkest days in U.S. military history. On that day, the soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, who had suffered dozens of casualties in the campaign against the Viet Cong, assaulted the village of My Lai. Under the command of Lieutenant William Calley, the soldiers attacked the village based on faulty intelligence about the location of a Viet Cong unit. Instead of the expected enemy, they found local civilians, mostly old men, women, and children. In the end, a U.S. Army investigation found that C Company soldiers “massacred a large number The post Military AI: Angel of our Better Nature or Tool of Control? appeared first on War on the Rocks.
March 16, 1968, is one of the darkest days in U.S. military history. On that day, the soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, who had suffered dozens of casualties in the campaign against the Viet Cong, assaulted the village of My Lai. Under the command of Lieutenant William Calley, the soldiers attacked the village based on faulty intelligence about the location of a Viet Cong unit. Instead of the expected enemy, they found local civilians, mostly old men, women, and children. In the end, a U.S. Army investigation found that C Company soldiers “massacred a large number
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