Reports have emerged detailing how the Israeli army's use of an artificial intelligence program, referred to as 'Lavender', and an automated system named 'Where’s Daddy?', has led to the deaths of thousands of civilians, predominantly women and children, in Gaza. The AI's decisions, particularly in the early weeks of the conflict, resulted in widespread airstrikes without thorough human verification, effectively turning human officers into mere 'rubber stamps' for the machine-generated 'kill lists'. Critics and observers have highlighted the lack of oversight and the dangers of integrating AI into military operations, emphasizing the horrific outcomes and the realization of long-standing fears regarding AI in weaponry. The situation confirms fears raised in October about the IDF's use of AI, noting its error-proneness, scant human oversight, and facilitation of mass killings.
The real AI threat is not years in the making, it is here and it is wiping out civilians, children and women with gusto. Except when it hallucinates rather than just blowing up Palestinians, it blows up Westerners helping them. https://t.co/1r5dlSa1IZ
This story is horrific, and basically confirms every one of the fears we had back in October when we knew the IDF was using AI—it's error-prone, there's scant human oversight, and it facilitates the mass rubber stamping of targets, of mass killing. https://t.co/LnwPGVUFAn
Where are the "AI safety" folks re Israel's militarization & misuse of the tech?
The Israeli army uses an automated death squad system called “Where’s Daddy?” to murder Palestinian families in their homes https://t.co/eDb6vhu5oB
The Israeli army "gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices...human personnel often served only as a 'rubber stamp' for the machine’s decisions." https://t.co/fA6tNzpi5j
This is like something out of a horror movie. " "..thousands...-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." https://t.co/6b8ACAz36f
Everything campaigners have been warning about since artificial intelligence has been creeping into weapons systems and military planning is now applied ruthless by #Israel in #Gaza, killing thousands of innocent civilians. Horrible, dystopian read https://t.co/R3ZQdmeEGP