Israeli Journalist Breaks Bombshell Story: AI Technology Is Directing The Bombing Spree In Gaza: Mass Production Of Human Targets Without Hindrances: "It's Called Broad Hunting"
"They Took Down Four Buildings When They Knew The Target Was In One of Them. It Was Crazy." Six Israeli Intelligence Officers Go On Record, Remorseful And Frightened Of Where It Will End
Forget Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestine: Have You Felt Guilty For Opposing A Force You Could Not Name? You Were Right: It’s AI.
“The result, as the sources testified, is that thousands of Palestinians — most of them women and children or people who were not involved in the fighting — were wiped out by Israeli airstrikes, especially during the first weeks of the war, because of the AI program’s decisions.”
“We’ve killed people with collateral damage in the high double digits, if not low triple digits. These are things that haven’t happened before.”
“There was hysteria in the professional ranks…They had no idea how to react at all.”
“Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”
—’Lavender,’ the AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree In Gaza
A lengthy investigative report has come out detailing use of AI in Gaza bombing targets that all but eliminates human judgment for when, or whether, bombing a structure to kill a suspected Hamas operative is justified, rendering the new warfare mechanical, ruthless, and post-human, even by the standards of any previous warfare.
The report, in 972 Magazine (citizen journalists both Israeli and Palestinian) by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, is a game-changer, that left me with shaking hands, after I finished reading it. It relies on six Israeli intelligence sources who explain in great detail, partly due to their own distress, a dystopic reality that could potentially reconcile both sides, once everybody faces this brutal revelation.
“The Lavender software analyzes information collected on most of the 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip through a system of mass surveillance, then assesses and ranks the likelihood that each particular person is active in the military wing of Hamas or PIJ. According to sources, the machine gives almost every single person in Gaza a rating from 1 to 100, expressing how likely it is that they are a militant.
Lavender learns to identify characteristics of known Hamas and PIJ operatives, whose information was fed to the machine as training data, and then to locate these same characteristics — also called “features” — among the general population, the sources explained. An individual found to have several different incriminating features will reach a high rating, and thus automatically becomes a potential target for assassination.”
Welcome To The Machine
Those who have thus far defended what they call “Israel” can now potentially back down, with honor, upon realizing this is not the “Israel” they once knew, but rather, an Israel that has been augmented and overtaken by a post-conscience AI technology. This technology has many programs, with diabolical, even sarcastic names, like: “Where’s Daddy?” “The Gospels.“ And the main one, dubbed: “Lavender.”
The off-ramp I imagine and pray for in the wake of this article can reasonably blame the machine, although, of course, “human beings” designed it and set it loose. The programs can only detect if a target is male, has had some association (or, in some cases, not even) with Hamas, but can blow up a whole building even if the target is not even there. Or four buildings when the target is believed to be in one of them.
It targets low level Hamas operatives as well as high level ones—and seeks no reasonable margins between targets and civilian casualties. It goes for just about anybody, just about, even those with little or no association with Hamas.
This technological leap into the abyss renders “warfare” cold, and mechanical, and orgiastic. The human element is removed, along with the guilty conscience that would normally balk.
“Everything was statistical, everything was neat—it was very dry.”
Hundreds dead, because the machine mistook a building for a Hamas hot-spot, generating targets in bulk—an insatiable machine, calling the shots.