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Similar submission was flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39917727
I find the AI angle fascinating, but I suppose the comments become inflammatory fast.
'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
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Sadly you're right, our US-based peers will flag this into oblivion. Israel are the good guys, read it in a newspaper.
Re: 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
#93Anyone who knowingly developed this should be tried held personally responsible.
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#94Already deleted, that was quick.
If we can’t trust AI to drive a car, how the hell can we trust it to pick who lives and who dies?
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#95Re: 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
#96@dang Please consider that this is an important and well sourced article regarding military use of AI and machine learning and shouldn't disappear because some users find it upsetting.
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#97Re: 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
#98> the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases
This statement means little without knowing the accuracy of a human doing the same job.
Without that information this is an indictment of military operational procedures, not of AI.
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#99[flagged]
Where is YOUR evidence for such accusations?
Re: 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
#100Accepting technological barbarism is a choice. Among engineers there should be a broad refusal to work on such systems and a blacklist for those who do.