AI Would Have Failed to Protect Mosul

Poor data contributed to the loss of Mosul to ISIS in 2014. AI tools could not have saved the city.

It is 2014. ISIS has taken Syrian territory and is heading into Iraq, towards the major city of Mosul.  US Centcom believes Iraqi Security Forces will repel an attack of a few thousand fighters. But its data is wrong.  Iraqi Security Forces count ‘ghost soldiers’ who received half of their salaries in return for failing to report for duty. This exaggeration is one of many that led to ISIS’s capture of…