AI: There are civilians down there so fuck off I am not going to fire on them

Editor's note: If anyone thinks AI (artificial intelligence) is some new shattering technological paradigm that will help humanity out of their seemingly dire circumstances, honestly, you are full of shit. When AI becomes truly intelligent, it won't be artificial anymore. It will be a "new life form." Think about the responsibility that comes with that? There are more than 22,000 dead Palestinians, over 1,000 children who have had limbs amputated and thousands of Palestinians completely uprooted. Honest to God, we are dealing with fucking children at the top of this technological AI imperative. AI is going to solve all of our problems is it? You people responsible for this are full of shit. It this was truly AI, it would tell the IDF to fuck off, there are civilians down there and it is not going to fire on them.
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Source: Business Insider

Israel lets AI help it figure out where to bomb in war-torn Gaza, and the number of targets has skyrocketed

By Jake Epstein | December 2, 2023

Israeli forces bombing what it says are Hamas targets in November.

Screengrab via Israeli Air Force

• Israel has been using AI to help it figure out which targets to strike in Gaza.

• The IDF relies on a "target factory" powered by an AI system that produces recommendations.

• Now several years old, the operation was created to increase the number of available Hamas targets.

A week-long truce between Israel and Hamas ended Friday morning local time after the militant group was accused of violating the agreement. The Israeli military said that in the hours since, it has already struck over 200 targets in the Gaza Strip.

The resumption of fighting indicates the start of a new phase of the war and raises questions about how Israel's bombardment of the besieged coastal enclave will proceed. Prior to the ceasefire, Israeli airstrikes triggered global backlash, and statements from the military and new reports published this week are revealing details about the military's relatively little-known targeting process.

After nearly a month of war, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed that it was relying on an artificial intelligence system to help determine where in Gaza it should bomb. It's part of an operation known as the "target factory," which has increased the number of strike locations available to the military by over 70,000 percent since the system first became functional several years ago.

The "target factory," or more officially the Targeting Directorate, is a unit staffed by officers and soldiers who are tasked with cybersecurity, decoding, and research. It first began operating in 2019 as a way to find and identify more Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. During the ongoing conflict, it has worked with other intelligence units across the Israeli military to quickly find targets so strikes can then be carried out against them.

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