US Senator Raphael Warnock has said that the killing of more than 170 schoolchildren in Iran “should shock our conscience and cause us to recoil in horror”.
The senator, who is also a pastor and a member of the Democratic Party, called for accountability and lessons learned from the tragedy, which has been blamed by Iran on US-Israeli forces.
“A nation whose leaders can so easily shrug off the death of children, no matter the cause, is in need of moral repair,” Warnock said in a post on social media.
“We must never forget that Iranian children, too, are children of God,” he added.
Warnock is one of 40 Democratic senators who wrote to the US Department of Defense on Wednesday asking for answers from the Trump administration about civilian casualties in Iran, including the missile strike on an elementary school in Minab, where the 170 schoolgirls were killed.
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Strikes by Israel and the United States against a school and thousands of other civilian targets in Iran demonstrate the danger of the uncontrolled use of artificial intelligence (AI) in selecting bombing targets, the Financial Times (FT) reports.
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The newspaper noted that during the operation in Iran, the US was actively employing AI for target selection. Whether such technologies were used in the strike on the school, and to what extent, remains unknown, the FT reports.