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On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

Kill Chain On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children Kevin Baker Mar 21, 2026 991 325 Share Aegis combat system displays aboard USS Vincennes (CG-49), the warship whose crew misidentified Iran Air Flight 655 as an attacking fighter jet and shot it down in 1988, killing all 290 people aboard. A revised version of this article appears in the The Guardian. You can read that version here . Artificial Bureaucracy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. If you hate the owners of Substack, you can sideste

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