AI has given a surprising response when it was asked about when the US war in Iran would end.
The US and Israel have carried out multiple rounds of strikes on targets across Iran, with several cities reportedly hit.
Reports also claim Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed during the bombardment, while Trump has insisted there will be no agreement with Iran other than ‘unconditional surrender’.
At the same time, Israel has launched additional strikes in Beirut, Lebanon.
Iran, in turn, has responded with missile and drone attacks aimed at nearby countries that host US bases, as well as strikes directed at Israel.
With the situation escalating, someone entered the scenario into an AI tool and asked it to predict, in broad terms, how long the war might last.
The output was later shared by vt.co, and included the following assessment: “The hot war phase lasts weeks, not years. Trump pulls back, claims victory, and moves on.
“But the aftermath is a decade-plus of regional instability, proxy warfare, an emboldened Iranian diaspora resistance that may or may not coalesce into anything, an accelerated nuclear race, and a Middle East that’s significantly more dangerous than it was before February 28.”
The AI response also argued the conflict would not become a ‘forever war’, but instead leave what it described as a ‘forever consequence’, likening the long-term impact to an injury that ‘doesn’t bleed dramatically but never fully heals’.
The US and Israel reportedly began striking Iran after talks over its nuclear program failed to produce an agreement.
Trump has said the objective of the operation was to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities and interfere with efforts to develop a nuclear weapon.
However, the campaign has drawn strong criticism, both from within the US and from international observers.
Following the strikes, Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian has been reported as offering an apology to neighbouring countries impacted by Iranian retaliation, saying in a speech broadcast on Iranian state television: “I apologise … to the neighbouring countries that were attacked by Iran.”
Pezeshkian reportedly added that Iran would not target a neighbouring state unless an attack on Iran had originated from that country.
The action against Iran comes only months after a US operation in Venezuela that detained Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, and Trump has since suggested he is already looking at another country.
This time, he has turned his attention to Cuba.
Trump said: “Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon, by the way, unrelated, but Cuba is gonna fall too. They want to make a deal so badly.”