Blaming Claude for a Database Error: How AI Became the Scapegoat

The Minab school bombing exposed a critical infrastructure failure—an outdated Defense Intelligence Agency database that misclassified a school as a military facility—yet public discourse fixated on Claude, an Anthropic chatbot, rather than Maven, the Palantir-built system that actually conducted the targeting. This misdirection, termed 'AI psychosis,' obscures the real accountability problem: not whether AI systems can be trusted, but how legacy data errors embedded in speed-optimized military infrastructure become lethal. Correcting this narrative is essential for meaningful technology policy and preventing future civilian casualties.