Gaza update: the questionable precision and ethics of Israel's AI warfare machine
A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
Thousands of Palestinians — most of them women and children or people who were not involved in the fighting — were wiped out by Israeli airstrikes, especially during the first weeks of the war, because of the AI program’s decisions. The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using…
Isaac Chotiner interviews Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham on his investigations of the I.D.F.’s use of A.I.-backed targeting systems and the dire cost to Palestinian civilians.
Video of official from Unit 8200 in February 2023 raises questions about Israel’s denials of use of AI in Gaza
In the Lavender case, the data it produced were accepted and treated as if they had been generated by a human being without any actual human oversight or independent verification. A second AI system, sadistically named “Where’s Daddy?”—and how sick is this?—was then used to track Hamas suspects to their homes. The IDF intentionally targeted suspected militants…