Going by recent events I think the convention is to drone strike them and their entire family anyway, and then tally them up as a confirmed dead terrorist.

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

> what happens when the defense AI 'hallucinates' and suggests that somebody is a terrorist when they are not?

Collateral damage. Same thing that happens in any war when an analyst or soldier misreads the battlespace.

War is hell. We won’t change that by making it pleasant. We can only avoid it by not going to war.

Security podcasters will cheer you killing kids because you might have hit a few terrorists in the process.

The cynic in me finds this quite naive - there are territories of the Earth where if you are a male of a certain age and you are killed in a drone strike you are automatically classified as a "military-aged male", i.e. a non-civilian, regardless of the existence of any other evidence.

So what will happen if AI suggests someone is a terrorist when they are not? Well, in the worst scenario they'll be killed, and it'll be very close to what we have today, except somewhere in a private military database there might be an automatically generated record from an LLM ok-ing the target.

That's been done over a decade ago with random forests. There's no need to apply anything as advanced as generative AI 'hallucinations' for such a trivial problem. /s

https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2016/f...