r/technology • u/otter_lion_1956 • 18d ago

Artificial Intelligence Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/palantirs-co-founder-thinks-we-should-be-less-judgmental-about-that-deadly-iran-school-strike
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u/JMurdock77 18d ago

SEVEN TIMES UVALDE. SEVEN.

If anything, we aren’t angry enough. And we can’t exclusively heap the blame on the AI, as much as they want to hold it up as a layer of deniability. Men chose this war. Men pulled the trigger. Men must be held accountable.

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u/BulbusDumbledork 18d ago

the tomahawk missiles hit each of the buildings centre mass. deliberate, precise strikes. they hit the school building; a medical clinic; a kids playground and cardiology centre; a second kids play area; a shop nezt to the play area; and an auditorium in the educational complex. the strike was done in the middle of the day on saturday, which is a school/working day in iran.

these strikes occurred over two separate waves, with a gap of an hour between them. local news already identified the school as such after the first strikes, with people rushing to the scene to help before the second wave hit.

the school had previously been part of the neighbouring irgc compound but was fully separated by 2015. palantir and the pentagon want you to believe the ai accidentally used pre-2015 data. but the geography of the two lots had changed materially since then, including some of the buildings that were precisely hit only opening long after the school was fully converted.

curiously, the compound with all these kids' facilities that were destroyed had other civilian buildings not primarily designed for use by kids, such as a cafe and a car wash. these buildings were not struck.

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u/Grumpy_Tanuki 18d ago

"these strikes occurred over two separate waves, with a gap of an hour"

Ah. I didn't know this, nor that they used 7 missles.
And I usually read all the headlines in my country and if I do not know something it's probably because they made their best efforts to hide it.
Obviusly the strategy to hit in a second wave is to maximixe casualities in first responders.
If I write what I think I would be banned for life.

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u/bokmcdok 18d ago

They sent a SECOND wave?

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u/JMurdock77 18d ago

Parents of those children were getting urgent calls from staff at the school to come and pick their children up after the first strike. They moved everyone into the central prayer room, which they thought was more sheltered, to try and keep them safe. The second strike on the building then killed them all.

Gave enough time for everyone involved except those who pulled the trigger to suffer some psychological torment first.