The importance of this aspect of corporate governance was highlighted tragically in the opening hours of the war against Iran, when AI was used to help identify targets for thousands of missile strikes that killed hundreds of people.
This is the most striking factual claim in the article — AI-assisted targeting in a major military conflict causing mass casualties. Embedded in a paragraph about shareholder resolutions, it grounds the abstract governance discussion in lethal concrete consequences. The juxtaposition of 'proxy season' and 'missile strikes that killed hundreds' captures the scale mismatch between available accountability mechanisms and actual AI harms.