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Israel using computer systems to choose where to bomb

jeudi 7 décembre 2023 à 00:50

The Israeli army is using a computer system to choose which houses to bomb in Gaza.

The opacity provided by the magic word "AI" provides plenty of opportunity to paint the system as trying to avoid collateral damage, while tuning it so that such efforts are cursory and predictably inadequate. We could equally well describe it as accepting a considerable risk of killing civilians.

The input to the system includes a list of houses in which some inhabitant is suspected of being a HAMAS fighter. That is a recipe for blowing up lots of houses, in which probably no HAMAS fighter is in residence during the bombardment, and killing tens or hundreds of thousands of relatives or bystanders.