AI News Briefing — September 19: a hallucinated AI report nearly puts US forces on a Chinese ship, the Federal Register runs a Chinese model the FBI had named, and the FAA lines up an $875M AI tool
Government use of AI slipped twice on the same day. The US military turned back from boarding a Chinese ship after officials traced the intelligence report behind the operation to a chatbot, the Federal Register pulled a Chinese model the FBI had named, and the FAA is preparing to put an $875 million AI tool into air traffic management.