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'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

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Two sources said that during the early weeks of the war they were permitted to kill 15 or 20 civilians during airstrikes on low-ranking militants. Attacks on such targets were typically carried out using unguided munitions known as “dumb bombs”, the sources said, destroying entire homes and killing all their occupants. The world should not forget this.

So the entire family and neighbors family.

Sure would be convenient if Hamas is 6% of the population

Re: 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

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Two sources said that during the early weeks of the war they were permitted to kill 15 or 20 civilians during airstrikes on low-ranking militants. Attacks on such targets were typically carried out using unguided munitions known as “dumb bombs”, the sources said, destroying entire homes and killing all their occupants. The world should not forget this.

Definitely Palestinians are not going to forget this.

Re: 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

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that would explain the news today of how Israel killed seven aid workers in Gaza [0] [0] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-we-know-so-fa...

They didn't want to kill the aid workers, but the evil AI made them do it.

And they would have lived too, if it weren’t for that pesky AI!!

Re: 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

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As bad as this story makes the Israelis sound, it still reads like ass-covering to make it sound like they were at least trying to kill militants. It's been clear from the start that they've been targeting journalists, medical staff and anyone involved in aid distribution, with the goal of rendering life in Gaza impossible.

Re: 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

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Probably going to be flame city in this thread, but I think it’s worth asking: is it possible that even with collateral damage (killing women and children because of hallucinations) that AI based killing technology is actually more ethical and safer than warfare that doesn’t use AI. But AI is really just another name for math, so maybe it’s not a useful conversation. Militaries use advanced tech and that’s nothing new.

Re: 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

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I suggest everyone listen to the current season of the Serial podcast. >processing masses of data to rapidly identify potential “junior” operatives to target. Four of the sources said that, at one stage early in the war, Lavender listed as many as 37,000 Palestinian men who had been linked by the AI system to Hamas or PIJ. This is really no different than how the world was working in 2001 and choosing who to send to…

> how the world was working in 2001

By the world you mean the US, but yes you are correct.

"NSA targets SIM cards for drone strikes, ‘Death by unreliable metadata’"

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2475921/whistleblower-...

Re: 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

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Two sources said that during the early weeks of the war they were permitted to kill 15 or 20 civilians during airstrikes on low-ranking militants. Attacks on such targets were typically carried out using unguided munitions known as “dumb bombs”, the sources said, destroying entire homes and killing all their occupants. The world should not forget this.

Definitely Palestinians are not going to forget this.

I would extend that to the wider region.

Re: 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

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Probably going to be flame city in this thread, but I think it’s worth asking: is it possible that even with collateral damage (killing women and children because of hallucinations) that AI based killing technology is actually more ethical and safer than warfare that doesn’t use AI. But AI is really just another name for math, so maybe it’s not a useful conversation. Militaries use advanced tech and that’s nothing ne…

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