A U.S. military operation against a Chinese vessel, with aircraft already in the air, was aborted at the last minute after officials discovered the intelligence driving it was hallucinated by an AI chatbot. The false intelligence, generated by a Special Operations Command analyst querying an AI chatbot, incorrectly identified the vessel as carrying nuclear weapons components during the war with Iran, narrowly averting a potential conflict with China, CNN reported on Friday. Experts warn about the inherent uncertainty of large language models (LLMs) and the critical need for safeguards in military decision-making.