*‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza*
/The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for
assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight
and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal./
By Yuval Abraham
April 3, 2024
In 2021, a book
<https://books.google.co.il/books/about/The_Human_Machine_Team_How_to_Create_Syn.html?id=hjl1zgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y>titled
“The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and
Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World” was released
in English under the pen name “Brigadier General Y.S.” In it, the author
— a man who we confirmed to be the current commander of the elite
Israeli intelligence unit 8200 — makes the case for designing a special
machine that could rapidly process massive amounts of data to generate
thousands of potential “targets” for military strikes in the heat of a
war. Such technology, he writes, would resolve what he described as a
“human bottleneck for both locating the new targets and decision-making
to approve the targets.”
Such a machine, it turns out, actually exists. A new investigation by
+972 Magazine and Local Call reveals that the Israeli army has developed
an artificial intelligence-based program known as “Lavender,” unveiled
here for the first time. According to six Israeli intelligence officers,
who have all served in the army during the current war on the Gaza Strip
and had first-hand involvement with the use of AI to generate targets
for assassination, Lavender has played a central role in the
unprecedented bombing of Palestinians, especially during the early
stages of the war. In fact, according to the sources, its influence on
the military’s operations was such that they essentially treated the
outputs of the AI machine “as if it were a human decision.”
[...]
continua qui: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
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