*Report: Israeli Army Uses AI to Produce Palestinian Targets for Assassination* *Officers described being pressured to approve as many AI-generated targets as possible to meet daily quotas.* by Sharon Zhang, Truthout, April 3, 2024 https://truthout.org/articles/report-israeli-army-uses-ai-to-produce-palestinian-targets-for-assassination/
On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 10:08 AM Dennis Brasky <[email protected]> wrote: > The incredibly brave and resourceful Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham revealed > Wednesday <https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/> in a > hard-hitting piece of investigative journalism that the Israeli military > has used two artificial intelligence programs, “Lavender” and “Where’s > Daddy,” to target some 37,000 alleged members of the military wings of > Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The programs used GPS to discover when a Hamas > member had gone home, since it was easiest to hit them there, ensuring that > his wife and children would also be killed. If he lived in an apartment > building, which most did, then all the civilians in neighboring apartments > could also be killed– children, women, non-combatant men. > > Science fiction writer Martha Wells has authored a series of novels and > short stories about a “Murderbot.” > <https://www.marthawells.com/murderbot.htm>, an artificial intelligence > in the body of an armored warrior. Her Murderbot, despite being lethal, is > a good guy, and in noir style frees himself from the control of his > corporate overlords to protect his friends. > > The Israeli army, in contrast, is acting much more robotically. > https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/murderbot-programmed-palestinian.html > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29794): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29794 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105331833/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
