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US military nearly escalates China conflict over AI misinformation—and who really fills the accountability gap? The US military nearly blundered into a hot conflict with China after AI-generated misinformation triggered a military response in the Gulf—exposing a dangerous blind spot in how we've outsourced intelligence to language models. When AI gets benched, human contractors quietly step in, but the real question isn't whether the output changes—it's who actually owns the mistake when things go wrong.