Palantir's CTO names human error, not the Maven SI system, as the likely cause of the strike on a school in Iran
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It is unclear whether a person or an SI system caused the error: Palantir points to human error.
On CBS's "Face the Nation," Palantir chief technology officer Shyam Sankar said Bloomberg's report that personnel relied too heavily on the Maven SI system in the strike on a school in Minab, Iran, is inaccurate, and that "the likely cause is human error"; he suggested waiting for the final report. According to the program's host, at least 123 children died at the school. Sankar said Palantir has since built additional SI agents that "do more checking." According to him, SI lets one person prepare a thousand strikes in four hours, which used to take 50 people two weeks. On liability, Sankar said that SI companies are responsible for a defective product, and the user is responsible for misusing a product that works; Palantir did not sign the presidential accord because, he said, it was for companies that build models.
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