How AI tells Israel who to bomb

AI is supposed to help militaries make precise strikes. Is that the case in Gaza?
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Israel's war with Hamas, in response to the attacks of October 7, 2023, has led to more fatalities than in any previous Israeli war, with at least 34,000 Palestinians killed as of May 7, 2024. In Israel’s 2014 war in Gaza, just over 1,400 were killed. One factor in that difference is the use of artificial intelligence.
Israel’s incorporation of AI in warfare has been public for years through both defensive and offensive weapons. But in this war, AI is being deployed differently: It’s generating bombing targets. The promise of AI in a military context is to enhance strike precision and accuracy, but over the past few months Israeli outlets +972 magazine and Local Call have revealed that the multiple AI systems that help the IDF select targets in Gaza have contributed to the highest number of Palestinian civilian deaths and injuries ever.
In our video, we interview multiple experts to understand how two specific systems, Gospel and Lavender, operate, and we explore the broader implications of current and future AI use in warfare.
Further reading:
Some say AI will make war more humane. Israel’s war in Gaza shows the opposite. by Sigal Samuel on Vox.com: www.vox.com/fu...
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza, by Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com...
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza, by Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com...
‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets, by Bethan McKernan and Harry Davies
www.theguardia...
Israel under pressure to justify its use of AI in Gaza, by Joseph Gedeon and Maggie Miller
www.politico.c...
Israel is using an AI system to find targets in Gaza. Experts say it’s just the start, by Geoff Brumfiel
www.npr.org/20...
Israel’s AI Revolution: From Innovation to Occupation, by Anwar Mhajne
carnegieendowm...
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[@Vox]

This story is about the war in Gaza, but it's also a preview of the future of warfare. Over on our website, the reporter Sigal Samuel did an interview that delves into the ethical questions around that future even further. It's fascinating, complicated, and really, truly scary: www.vox.com/future-perfect/24151437/ai-israel-gaza-war-hamas-artificial-intelligence

[@UnluckyLeo1]

Wow

[@9k111]

Vox what did you mean by "Yes, Gaza militants hide rockets in schools, but Israel doesn't have to bomb them" in 2014??

[@muslimresponse103]

0:20 “her home was no longer there”. what does that even mean? don’t you mean her home was destroyed by israe! 🇮🇱

[@liranbugas8062]

@@muslimresponse103 that's what happen when you vote for a terrorist group

[@MirceaKitsune]

Humanity is at the level where people pretending to be of sound mind absolve themselves from the consequences of their actions by saying "a man in the body of a computer told me to do it". Please let that sink in for a moment everyone.

[@zacky6533]

One of the most dystopian video titles I think I've ever read

[@kingace6186]

1984

[@TheCraftyRedPandaMC]

They literally aimbotting

[@phillip4213]

@@kingace6186So true this is just like that one chapter of 1984 Where Winston in Gaza is bombed by AI which everyone who has read the book will remember. Truly the most powerful part of that book.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

@@phillip4213 AI would unironically be very fitting in the setting of 1984

[@thelightsilent]

Remember Gaza and Palestinians just like iran and turkey dont believe in Women human rights, executes people for listening to music, imprisons then kills LGBTQ people. This isn't what they believe its what they do they have it as law in their countries.

[@TrogdorBurnin8or]

If we allow "AI" to be an excuse here, we allow "A coin flip" to be an excuse. AI did not tell Israel who to bomb. Israel asked AI who to bomb, and told it how it should decide who to bomb.

[@RealShaktimaan]

Everything is not AI. They've been using these tools for years

[@TheZchristina97]

Good point. Although I think the point of this video is not that AI should be an excuse, rather that it makes existing violence exponentially worse. It's kind of like how machine guns don't themselves cause mass shootings, but they do make them exponentially more deadly.

[@thelightsilent]

Remember Gaza and Palestinians just like iran and turkey dont believe in Women human rights, executes people for listening to music, imprisons then kills LGBTQ people. This isn't what they believe its what they do they have it as law in their countries.

[@turqutopia]

Plus you know ... the other 75 years of ethnic cleansing without the help of A.I

[@HigherMid]

And that meant errybody

[@saemstunes]

Training AI with thousands of civilian lives as data for war is the most messed up thing

[@rdothl5]

Give me a break 10k militants dead with only 23k civilians, llok at millions dead in Syria, Vietnam... How many in Yemen etc

[@coderentity2079]

@@rdothl5 You need to be a civilian in Gaza or in the next Syria, Vitnam. Then you will understand that "break" isn't what you need.

[@irenesara455]

​@@rdothl5 15000 children, 10 000 women

[@sebastianr1204]

@@irenesara455“Children“ many of them 17 years old terrorists and militants. I am not a sexist and I don’t care if a terrorist ist a man or a woman.

[@laithmughrabi8990]

Watch "the lab" by Yotam. They experiment weapons on civilians for decades.

[@LithiumBlock]

How insanely irresponsible it is to report on the use of "power targets" and NOT to mention how this is a blatant war crime. The targeting of civilian housing with the intent to "put pressure" on a militant group that is not actively operating there is a war crime. It's also the definition of terrorism.

[@Purriah]

Yeah, it’s blatant. They didn’t hide anything. It’s obvious dude

[@AmxCsifier]

only brown people can be terrorists /s

[@mr_brown5974]

I know. Disgusted by vox.

[@hiranga]

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[@shelly661]

Israel is operating under international law. Don't believe every video you see.

[@abdelrahmana.abdelgawad6635]

"civil pressure" so terrorism, that's literally what terrorism is.

[@mhaster87]

say it louder

[@qasimahmad6748]

Edited: You're wrong. Its war crimes AND terrorism

[@oisinmurphy8747]

The axis and the allies did the same thing in ww22 but it was not referred to as terrorism.

[@PeidosFTW]

So what? Israel is a terrorist state​@@oisinmurphy8747

[@Stevie-J]

Geneva Convention IV Article 33 prohibits collective punishments of civilian populations. "Civil pressure" is obviously collective punishment, a war crime.

[@liftgaming1588]

The irony of part of the AI bombing system being called "The Gospel" speaks volumes

[@thelightsilent]

Remember Gaza and Palestinians just like iran and turkey dont believe in Women human rights, executes people for listening to music, imprisons then kills LGBTQ people. This isn't what they believe its what they do they have it as law in their countries.

[@arspsychologia4401]

It's certainly Israeli gospel

[@roelzylstra]

Death is the religion of militaries.

[@jackharle1251]

Paid for by the USA.

[@whatthethese]

it has been used in usa in Iraq for decades with ai you sound like isreal invented this stuff

[@whatupinvaders198]

People keep saying “this is so dystopian” when the reality is, we are already there. We just don’t realize it yet.

[@JohnSmith-mc2zz]

Many technologies we use for civilian purposes were created for combat. For example the detailed topographic maps and ways of tracking entities as they move across them. They can be seen from drones, space, and by pinging electronic devices using cell towers. This is the progression of that.

[@eldenchad7130]

​@@JohnSmith-mc2zz look up the word dystopia and you should understand why OP is correct

[@mariusvanc]

We were here many years ago. Militaries have been gathering and analyzing data on enemy targets for ages.

[@nicholasxamotainiumgilgamesh]

the rest of the world, not really. the most fked up are US and israel

[@tonysolar284]

So who's the frog?

[@mmk2001]

"civil pressure" I love how everything they do is sugar coated. When Russia does it it's a war crime, when they do it, it's "applying civil pressure" somehow.

[@Notaiidan]

Both Russia and Israel is bad

[@machariawanjagi5353]

"auto aim from call of duty", "permissable civilian casualities", "civil pressure" oh my god dude

[@turdferguson2863]

All while playing the victim game

[@erikcordova1713]

@@turdferguson2863 bro Palestine has the biggest victim complex

[@effymarvic3646]

@@erikcordova1713 are you serious

[@Caterfree10]

Deadass. As if we didn’t need further proof that Israelis don’t see Palestinians as human. 😒

[@Mohazz88]

Psychopaths ​@@effymarvic3646

[@yazzmaniac]

This feels more and more surreal. You think it cant possibly get more dystopian and then it does

[@FBIagentObama]

When you think you’ve witnessed rock bottom, isra3I proves you wrong.

[@user-bs9hm6gg9i]

dystopian? 80 thousand kids died of starvation in yemen with very primitive military methods . no demonstrations for them in western universities...

[@emirkin2204]

It is math and data analyses. With your understanding of science how come having electricity doesn’t feel surreal to you?

[@LutraLovegood]

@@emirkin2204 That's the dumbest question I've heard in a very long time.

[@yazzmaniac]

@@LutraLovegood thank you! I literally study computer science, my bf is a statistician, so it's clearly not that I don't understand how AI works. This guy apparently doesn't understand what "dystopian" means, or doesn't see a problem with using flawed systems to determine who lives and dies

[@wingsofkuiper1841]

It's so insanely dystopian how we're using AI to decide who dies and who doesn't. this is something out of a movie, not something we should be seeing in real life.

[@crisp-waffle]

this isn't the world anyone should have to live in

[@dbzayan]

@@RealShaktimaan Easy for you to say when you're not the one in danger though

[@nabawi7]

@@RealShaktimaan that's easy to say when you arent the one suffering from colonial violence for more than seven decades

[@dionjohn1744]

True but our world is not perfect. We have countries like NK, authoritarian states, states run by rebels,militias etc. As much as it pains me to tell, gaza isnt the only area, millions of people are living substandard lives but to most of us, all is well because in the west, thats how they live.

[@spirit6329]

@@dionjohn1744 Living in Gaza in not "substandard", it is the worst place to be "living" in the world right now.

[@dionjohn1744]

@@spirit6329 and the ppl of sudan are rolling wet soil to eat. The point is, all these prblms are initiated by war and conflict but the UN and news agencies fail to address these challenges.

[@saadbhai2452]

This is clearly Terrorism not civil pressure. Isn't civil pressure a type of terrorism?

[@Gabriel-pt6tq]

😂

[@hughacton5960]

Facts

[@Vizible21]

So does Hamas. So Terrorist vs Terrorist. Yes?

[@fadilm6489]

​@@Vizible21 hamas movement founded bcs of the terrorism caused by israel.

[@Ilforever1124]

On October 7th, Palestinians celebrated in the streets, distributed cakes, and helped kidnap Israelis to Gaza, into the tunnels. They also, in exchange for money, kept the kidnapped individuals in their homes to blend them into the population.

[@korayem]

Ever wonder why they didn't ask the AI engine to exclude children and women?

[@ShaharHarshuv]

They probably did but it cannot be guaranteed, that's why they have the "human component"

[@moddedbeast1772]

@@ShaharHarshuv 15k+ children, 10K+ women... yeah sure

[@bodiemonnig]

@@moddedbeast1772, Hamas uses child soldiers.

[@Avy42F]

they said in the video that they exclude women

[@EvErLoyaLEagLE]

​@Avy42F "exclude women from being *targeted*," but not being excluded from becoming COLLATERAL CASUALTIES.

[@RedHair651]

Just Israel being Israel. It's been this blatant for a very long time, and I'm glad people are finally paying attention.

[@wenerjy]

Considering one of the AI tools for Lavender is named "Where's Daddy", I don't think their programmers are too concerned with life preservation.

[@user-jr4ru7fe4j]

Programmers must create the tools the way the users and bosses want it. Blame Netanyahu.

[@thelightsilent]

Remember Gaza and Palestinians just like iran and turkey dont believe in Women human rights, executes people for listening to music, imprisons then kills LGBTQ people. This isn't what they believe its what they do they have it as law in their countries.

[@EK-rw9sw]

@@user-jr4ru7fe4j or they could refuse, the way hundreds of Google employees are doing right now (see "Project Nimbus"). We decided not so very long ago that "just following orders" is not an excuse.

[@starkidforlife136]

@@user-jr4ru7fe4jthey’re all accountable, they all believe in the racist supremacist rhetoric that makes all this Possible

[@shadowmistress999]

they certainly have humour 😂

[@goldking3464]

You know it's bad when you hear the words "auto aim from call of duty"

[@kingace6186]

Imagine having aimbot in a highly-densely populated urban front. That's collateral damage just waiting to happen. Then, factor in all the potential AI hallucinations.

[@JuanitoLima13]

It’s definitely not autoaim nor aimbot. The sight calculates distance and trajectory making it easier to land the shot, but the gun doesn’t aim for itself as autoaim and aimbot do.

[@binyaminkup2967]

​@@JuanitoLima13 Nice to see some people with a brain in the head. I have seen the system and know many soldiers that use it. While aiming at a target you can choose to lock on to it, and it will help you hit it. So if your aiming at a moving head, you'll hit it, or at a drone that's flying quickly around, you'll hit it. Obviously not like how in call of duty you just headshot through walls and unknown thing.

[@feofino1]

@@kingace6186It is to shoot down drones🤦‍♂️ yet they make it sound like it is used on humans. Vox lies to make things fit their agenda.

[@frikinboy67]

@@binyaminkup2967 Israeli defending Israeli actions 😂

[@GallileoPaballa]

Obviously the point of AI isn't to be more accurate or fast, but to avoid individual culpability for those in charge.

[@HorseWithNoBane]

Kinda like those self-driving cars where the "self-driving" will turn itself off during a car crash so it will not be liable to sue.

[@scoobydoo3159]

😰​@@HorseWithNoBane

[@lawrencetchen]

Precisely this.

[@carla_del_ponte]

war crimes are always tried on the basis of command responsibility

[@evil_morty_41]

So now they can do genocide and blame on AI now?

[@niggorr]

yes its all because of HAMASGPT

[@nicholasxamotainiumgilgamesh]

that's the plan all along

[@lonesomefencesitter3186]

Israel : Uh my bad, it was the AI making mistakes. All of the song about "The Plague of the First Born" are just a song, doesn't mean we programmed the AI to target children.

[@runderdfrech3560]

@samin9401 Genocide happened on October 7, has to be mentioned to be neutral. Not saying that this is ok, but definitely not unfounded!

[@lonesomefencesitter3186]

@@runderdfrech3560 Come on, You ask other to be honest, then be honest yourself ! Hamas October 7 is military operation to gain hostages. It is wrong, and there were casualties, but if Hamas really aimed on killing, then Israel would give us horror videos of thousands upon thousands of dead bodies.

[@Adrian-uq4yb]

The term, “permissible civilian casualties”, is not a phrase that any military should ever use, under any circumstances. Full stop.

[@simontemplar404]

Joker, it is used in every armed conflict in history. The Russians even bomb civilians directly to try and make Ukraine surrender. You are very ignorant.

[@dhruvshah3909]

That is naive

[@ShaiFishman]

How naive.... fairytale philosophy.

[@daddy_marx6823]

So if hypothetically an army hid soldiers, weapons, command equipment and generals in and amongst civilians and civilian infrastructure they'd have infinite immunity from retaliation?

[@JohnSmith-mc2zz]

To the peoplele saying the commenter naive, you are displaying deep moral sickness.

[@ChrisNobody-by8vt]

“Half of all targets identified were from the Power Targets category” I think I’m gonna be sick.

[@11Tits]

well it does sound like a power move to me so lets ball.

[@bagg2421]

​@@TheAlonos hasbara bot

[@mephiston874]

In small locations like gaza taking out the power grid is honestly the first thing any county would do, it's a no brainer. It's very different to a large country like Ukraine tho, effectiveness is drastically reduced due to size of location and amount of locations to disrupt power. But as I said in this specific situation all militaries would target a tiny locations power first.

[@Dramat1c_Irony]

​@TheAlonos what you are describing is still a war crime. Israel's "we told them to evacuate" argument would not shield them from any war crimes. It's still illegal under international law.

[@scoops2]

@@mephiston874 They admit themselves that "power targets" are civilians. The other 3 categories of targets are for terrorist threats. They admit themselves that it's to apply "civil pressure" not to stop terrorists. What are you on about?

[@Hamada_Intifada]

"civilian pressure" is just another term for collective punishment. Anyone who still doesn't think this is a g*nocide is delusional

[@BernardoSeguraSilva]

This is horrendous. The worst side of humanity I have witness in my life.

[@Eitangaming2.0]

Nah people have done wayy worse to the jews. Without ai. Have yall never heared of the holocaust

[@minestar2247]

​@@Eitangaming2.0sorry for sounding evil but no, they haven't,at least not as densely evil as what this

[@Eitangaming2.0]

@@minestar2247 holocaus-

[@h7pretzel]

​@@Eitangaming2.0 They haven't witnessed that in their life, apparently.

[@monstermash1571]

Its a messed up world we live in.

[@ShaiFishman]

Yup. Students asking for the genocide of jews. The holocaust. Ethnic cleansing of jews. Colonization of Israel for thousands of years Antisemitism... Almost hard to believe that 9 million people who are forced to defend themselves agains 1.6 BILLION would come up with smart tech to help them, when the entire world calls for their genocide. Indeed a messed up world.

[@AshG321M]

thanks to the West

[@banned-account]

@@AshG321M You say that like current events in Europe and the Middle East would be a serene utopia if the US never existed. Here's a simple history lesson: those issues have BOTH LONG existed before the US ever did. Lay off the State Television, comrade.

[@cyberninjazero5659]

​@@banned-accountNo, he's right. If it wasn't for the U.S, the imported trash would've been taken out a long time ago

[@banned-account]

@@cyberninjazero5659 Define the 'imported trash' you're dehumanizingly referring to.

[@BambiTrout]

"It wasn't my fault. I was only following the AI"

[@user-bs9hm6gg9i]

so what is the arab countries faults and western nations faults when all their recent conflicts produced hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties without AI ? oh right they dont even have to look for excuses,no one is demonstrating in western universities against those

[@LutraLovegood]

How the turn tables.

[@banned-account]

Strong "I was only following orders" vibe. Except now I suppose it's a 'valid' excuse. Seems as if the world has already forgotten history.

[@JessicaWngso]

"it wasn't my fault, I was just following my billionaire leaders who are hiding in Qatar"

[@pseudoplotinus]

The unbearable lightness of being an IDF member

[@kadenmoss8904]

Y’all really let them get away with “Civil Pressure”?

[@Rutherfordium2023]

This is no different then how the US chose targets during its occupations in the Middle East, the Global Hawk drone would track vehicle traffic and foot trafic and then designate on its own designate areas where militant activity was likely. Then this information would be sent to operators to give out orders.

[@AdityaAserkar]

What is this even? This is why Black Mirror stopped, since reality has become unfathomably dystopian.

[@ranikantari334]

Season 3 Episode 5 "Men Against Fire" always reminded me of the IDF

[@firegal21]

@@ranikantari334 White bear remind me of everyone watching and recording while people get beaten in the streets

[@stchaltin]

@@ranikantari334 That episode messed with my mind. It’s probably the single most influential piece of media that’s made me want to avoid VR and AR technology usage, even before AI deepfakes were a thing. Something about substituting our physical surroundings in a life-like quality rubs me the wrong way and always will.

[@luxurypetscz]

@@ranikantari334 exactly! I can't stop thinking about that episode whenever I see pictures of literal dead children on IG and then "all Palestinians are Hammas, all Hammas are terrorists" in the comments.

[@scazab6408]

allah hu akbar baby

[@vonderdrake9796]

Feels like i'm watching an actual episode of Black mirror

[@LutraLovegood]

Wait until you read about the atrocities of the last century!

[@Maxime-fo8iv]

Amazing work! What we want to watch out for when it comes to coverage of the war on Gaza is information fatigue, i.e. when people just stop listening to the news or clicking on KZbin videos because it's just another depressing video on the same topic. By finding stories like this, you not only alert on a greater issue than this war that's looming over our futures, but you also find a very interesting angle that helps people stay informed while avoiding this information fatigue. Please keep on the good work!

[@rankc9037]

I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM

[@m.fatihyldz8159]

it isn't the AI who's cruel, but the "human"

[@ShaiFishman]

Surely you mean Hamas.

[@Sometimes17927]

@@ShaiFishmanit’s easy to say that when you aren’t the one being in colonial danger for sure

[@SlamboSVV]

@@ShaiFishman No, Israeli people

[@Darkest_matter]

​@@ShaiFishmanif you lived in that situation, were able bodies and didn't rise up against your colonial master... You know there will come a time when they tre as t their animals better then you.

[@everettbr]

@@ShaiFishman is Hamas using AI targeting to drop 2000 pound bombs on civilians in designated safe areas?

[@epmmb]

Please, this is so wrong... 😓 This is not the world we should be building.

[@captainchaoscow]

What are you doing against it. Nothing. Using big tech like me.

[@kaeg.7800]

​@captainchaoscow so we shouldn't care? we should all be cynics like you?

[@MichelMrz]

These chosen people keep proving themselves as chosen demons. So far, Atomic Bomb, killer AI... what's next? Arnold android terminator?

[@Zui9SPARTACUS]

Remember the AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti?

[@pogo6543211111111]

@@MichelMrz as if islam does not see themself as chosen and being in perpetual war...

[@koharumi1]

6:55 love how the usa didn't even sign their own treaty about ai

[@minestar2247]

Thats kinda how the us does things, they didn't sign into the league of nations either, and didn't sign patent and copyright laws either and so on

[@That_Pillow]

I literally had a nightmare about something similiar a week ago and now its reality.

[@VegetaThoughts]

1) this is real journalism! 2) this is terrifying.

[@Ilforever1124]

On October 7th, Palestinians celebrated in the streets, distributed cakes, and helped kidnap Israelis to Gaza, into the tunnels. They also, in exchange for money, kept the kidnapped individuals in their homes to blend them into the population.

[@wahhend]

@@Ilforever1124 oCtoBeR 7tH oCtoBeR 7tH oCtoBeR 7tH oCtoBeR 7tH oCtoBeR 7tH

[@Thatll_Do_Pig_]

972 and Local Call have been doing the most important backroom reporting of the war

[@NovaaTheGreat]

​@@Ilforever1124since the last 75+ years, Israel had been bombing Palestine, and carrying out a ruthless genocide, and depriving them of basic human necessities like food, water, and electricity. Yet you think history began on October 7th.

[@Horus-j3f]

​@@NovaaTheGreatyes it didnt begin on oct 7, you forgot the multiple intifadas,yom kippur six days and for gaza, as soon as IDF left they started their campaigns in 2006 doesnt matter when it started, what matter is that Arabs almost always start the fight.

[@resurrectedone7463]

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 and Local Call reveal.

[@elklown]

This is so dystopian it’s literally project Insight from the Avengers

[@skibidisigma122]

Did Hamas care about human life?

[@UnlimitedUtopia]

@@skibidisigma122 they had more humanity

[@skibidisigma122]

@@UnlimitedUtopia they dont even have humanity for their own people

[@minestar2247]

​@@skibidisigma122actually, yes, their hostages are slightly better treated than the ones israel makes. Also, they have a strategic reason for that, because keeping the hostages alive means that they have a leverage. Also, they care more about their own people than you, so yeah, on any angle they respect it more

[@earnthis1]

It's Ai therefore you can't really blame people for the atrocities. Blame the robot thingy. Bad Ai! Bad!

[@FelipeKana1]

They basically are treating Palestinians like Europeans treated American natives... but with high tech AI systems and high tech missiles and bombs.

[@danmandanning]

Why shouldn't they treat them as terrorists?

[@cheezuru2566]

@@danmandanning what are you trying to say? that Palestinians are terrorists?

[@iammar1159]

@@danmandanning The irony. The Europeans also used demeaning words like this to dehumanize native Americans in order to justify their actions against them.

[@laithmughrabi8990]

​@@danmandanningisrael uses "terrorists" for every living thing in gaza, including the hostages.

[@zfar3oon733]

@@danmandanning !!!!ً WHY treat Palestinians as terrorists why killing all of this civilians

[@cerealkiller5599]

Vox doing work Vice used to do

[@pogo6543211111111]

underdog = right ?

[@ShaiFishman]

Vice wasn't antisemitic.

[@todddammit4628]

@@ShaiFishman So Vox is?

[@Anas_Sherif]

​@@ShaiFishman I'm sorry for replying because it might seem antisemitic But Arabs are ALSO Semite themselves lol, oh sorry remove that "also", most Israelis are Ashkenazi Jews not even Semite!

[@Smokingpotato288]

@@ShaiFishman If jews are semites, so are all the arabs. Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians are semitic people. So Israel is more antisemtic by killing alot more arab semites than the arab KHAMAS are killing. Imagine this narrative being lobbied for in the US 😅

[@raiden233]

The industrial revolution led to industrialized genocides... What will the revolution of artificial intelligence entail?

[@tradoss1]

So civilian lives = Ai decision ? What a shame to the world

[@paradox_1729]

So... just to be clear... there is no actual proof that the lady's home was targetted with AI assist.

[@Glennjamyyyn]

"Fire Factory", "Alchemist", and the "Gospel" being code names for their systems of genocide are almost comically nefarious. Those are names you give to your dungeons and dragons evil kingdom branches so that your players know 100% that they should have no remorse for taking down the bad guys.

[@Horus-j3f]

what's so nefarious about fire factory and alchemist

[@LutraLovegood]

Alchemist is literally a class in multiple RPGs. Fire Factory sounds like a factory making fireworks or military explosives. You gotta call your bad factions things like Blackwater, the Democratic Republic of Place, Elders of Thing, The Base, Proud Adultbabies, the National Front for Liberation, the Enlightened, Cyberdyne, HAL, Skynet, Predator, The Torch, something something Cerberus... Any names similar to real things might not be accidental.

[@franciscofacundocornejo2113]

@@LutraLovegood how about Israel?

[@victoralessandro2972]

This is atrocious.

[@incurableromantic4006]

Why?

[@deepwebwhirlpool]

​@@incurableromantic4006 are you emotionally stunted?

[@kevinsix666]

@@incurableromantic4006 I'm sorry about your undiagnosed brain damage.

[@thequackashow619]

​@@incurableromantic4006because no one is able to eat pancakes 🥞

[@jerrenguzman9006]

this seems like an interesting future of warfare until “power targets” are mentioned; that part is concerning and seems like it turns an attempt to eliminate threats into just a goal of destroying everything

[@StanleyKubick1]

EYE-D-F classifies every child above 12 as combatants

[@marielozoria]

you still need to have an army of absolute psychopaths for this to work

[@uguralpkosar]

If you think you are racially superior and have a state at your disposal at the same time, there you have them.

[@ParsaKhan-so1zl]

That what American & Israeli spy agencies are: criminal terrorist organisations.

[@ramonabdiel10]

Once again mankind doesn’t learn that with great power comes great responsibility

[@badboydrd]

They’re learned that, they just don’t care

[@skytron22]

Oh most humans do understand that. It's a certain egotistical sect of Jews think they have the money and influence to control the world, no matter the consequence. The US had a nuclear monopoly following WW2, and despite the temptation to use them during the korean war, the US made the responsible choice to not use them. Israel has no such sense of honor, nor morality.

[@GeoffreyNakamoto]

no, they just learned that, "might makes right"

[@stanleylay8682]

I thought the was an international law that prohibit the use of A.I for military use

[@PsYDaniel]

Another lie, resident buildings are not called power buildings.

[@Tito4349]

"like auto aim in call of duty"

[@mrrager3475]

so restarded

[@vijayakrishna55]

4:23 The AI has identified targets yeah, but it had clearly labelled more than 50% of them as civilian targets, which means it is a wilful civilian target to exert pressure. So 50% of Israel's targets were wilfully civilian? If this is not a war crime, I don't know what it is!!

[@Marklgfg29]

they have immunity to warcrimes from uncle sam

[@MK-nj5bm]

So basically an AI that just kills babies

[@saefelbgal4456]

Bold of you to assume that's not what AI is supposed to do.

[@wanderotter4667]

No Terrorists hiding behind babies.

[@legosheet]

unbelievable you guys would post this somehow acting like this isnt the methodology of modern genocide

[@herticate8579]

They were suffering way before this massacre, for over 70 years they lived under dystopian surveillance and checkpoints. And after all this years, they still failed so miserably and so outrageously to stop a guerilla makeshift group using civilian objects as materials for weapons. How did Israel intelligence agency fail to stop the attack? How did they fail to stop even after being tipped long before it actually happened? call me conspiracy theorist but this feels more like they knew and they allowed this to happen in order to further their agenda and ambition to encompass entirety of Palestine and also use it as excuse to invade and destroy most of Gaza which they succeeded (70% of Gaza is in waste and ruins)

[@monsieurduckie4068]

💯💯💯🙌

[@arspsychologia4401]

They specifically reduced security and such, they opened the door so they could "justify" retaliation. They want war.

[@Pixelarter]

It's not a conspiracy. The government of Israel on multiple times openly stated that it supported Hamas, calling it even an "asset" to leverage sabotaging a dual state solution.

[@Horus-j3f]

whether Israel knew or not and do something of it or not is of no difference. you'll still hate them like the antisemite you are

[@TeamTimeRiders]

While j do agree with your theory here, who don’t Palestinians agree with Israel’s right to exist? The antisemitism and rampant anti-Israeli sentiment forced Israel to develop these systems to defend itself. That’s why shield has now turned to sword in 2024. I would no doubt believe that the us is incredibly interested in the results of Israel’s ai tests in Gaza. Many people who are anti-Israel cite that Israel provides nothing to the United States for us to dump 3 billion a year into it. I’d argue that Israel is capable of doing the kinds of live wartime tests that the us is unable to do openly without tarnishing its image.

[@Sneaker3719]

Literally the only innovation AI seems to have brought us is that governments and corporations can now shirk responsibility for their horrid behavior onto the perceived objective reasoning of machines. Whether that be copyright infringement with generative programs, or indiscriminate murder with this example.

[@Wambundo]

It was an open air prison

[@aes0p895]

Maybe "Future Perfect" in big letters on the thumbnail for this was in bad taste. Just a thought.

[@stedaxewild6656]

our tax dollars at work

[@garrusv]

My thoughts exactly.

[@Dave05J]

Israel has a defense budget of 24 billion dollars.

[@cyberninjazero5659]

​@@Dave05JAnd how much does it get from foreign aid every year?

[@blueizumi]

So sad 😢

[@jebbo-c1l]

​@@Dave05J 4 billion every year from the US, 14 billion in the newest bill. I'd be livid if I was an American taxpayer

[@Darkest_matter]

Let's be honest, even without A.I., they would still call every rightous person a "terrorist."

[@laithmughrabi8990]

They are doing that un the west bank. Read Dahiya doctorine.

[@mike4617]

yes, blame the tool, not the one using it. brilliant

[@user-fi7qb2fz7c]

who are these sources that talked to 972, cause it seems that you don't say anything about their validity or credibility.

[@Skund79]

The Dahiya doctrine, or Dahya doctrine,[1] is a military strategy involving the destruction of civilian infrastructure in order to pressure hostile regimes.[2] It is a type of asymmetric warfare. It endorses the employment of "disproportionate force" (compared to the amount of force used by the enemy[3][4]) to secure that end.[5] The doctrine was outlined by former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of General Staff Gadi Eizenkot. -Wiki That's why

[@user-ry8dy6os7e]

It's a blatant war crime as per humanitarian law.

[@Copperkex]

Dahiya doctrine is an answer to Taqiyya doctrine.

[@AttaBek1422]

@@Copperkex Hasbara rat 🐀 🐀 🐀

[@user-ry8dy6os7e]

@Copperkex You don't know what you are talking about.

[@LutraLovegood]

@@Copperkex That doesn't even make sense.

[@authenticinquiry]

Thank you vox. History will remember how you were one of the very very very few that did the work that every major outlet should normally be doing but isn't.

[@pandjidhewantara]

Brain without heart makes inhumane...

[@Likorys888]

humane = spineless and weakness

[@uncoiledfish2561]

Emotional manipulation aye. The left is no different than the right. Don't fool yourself.

[@shakiMiki]

Using latest technology to inflict some of the heaviest civilian casualties. Bizarre way to go about things.

[@cyberninjazero5659]

Average Israeli Behavior

[@pandibbarman]

Well the population in gaza is also some of the heaviest so civilian casualties in thousands isn't wild at all not to mention I doubt the numbers of deads actually I think the dead toll is half and from that half there are also hamas terrorist because gaza health ministry doesn't differentiate better civilians and hamas terrorist

[@whynugs]

They live in an open prison and an open experimental weapon laboratory, broadcasting live worldwide This is sick!!

[@quandaliousdingle-r3b]

Truly

[@mariusvanc]

They voted for a terorist organization to rule them, and spent 10s of millions of dollars of foreign aid on building tunnels. It's a prison of their own making.

[@FixedA]

Imagine what would happen if October 7th happened in America? There would be no one left in the gas sector.

[@noone2262]

The war didn't start on October 7th.

[@Amir-py4qh]

@@noone2262yes it did.

[@noone2262]

@@Amir-py4qh then you're ignorant to history.

[@AS-yo2uy]

@@Amir-py4qh we have google its free u can see all the massacres that happened before oct.7th.the DAY before oct.7th, 80 Palestinians were killed and it didn't make the news.

[@primary_account]

I wonder where the "civil pressure" is actually working 🤔

[@Taquinqua]

‘Are we the baddies?’

[@ShaffafAhmed]

have always been.

[@spyrish]

lol, why was israel created?

[@I_hu85ghjo]

​@@spyrishmainly because interest of the British and French in the region later on the US. If they cared about the jews they would've taken them in instead

[@cyberninjazero5659]

​@@spyrishTo get rid of a people so awful no one else wanted them?

[@LethalTurd]

@@spyrish US/Brits needed their own fortress in middle east

[@romanonaidoo2737]

Civilian residential areas being referred to as “Power Targets” tell you everything you need to know.

[@Amir-py4qh]

Real question. What would your country do after such a massacre as October 7th would happen, coming from your neighbouring country?

[@allovertheplaceoriginals]

The great excuse of the century 'It was not us, it was Ai' Vox will go down in history books too!

[@user-kussikh]

Never knew Israel was weaponizing AI. Why do innocent homes have to be targeted? That's just messed up

[@coondog7934]

Are you sure they are in fact innocent? I got my doubts but I guess we will never know for certain.

[@hunterhealer8022]

@@coondog7934yes 13000 guilty hamas children.

[@FBIagentObama]

@@coondog7934you can ignore the evidence and claim “well never know for certain” all you want, doesn’t change what’s actually known🤦‍♂️

[@QuickQuips]

And they're listed as high power targets. Argh.

[@gbrahah]

because if you've been living under a rock -> hamas use Palestinians as human shields by hiding rocket launchers & other weaponry among them. I'm sure they'd love for them to surrender and have peace, or fight elsewhere, but Hamas keeps peeling back into civilian areas as a tactic

[@aspitube2515]

It’s sickening to see how much dehumanizing warfare is becoming

[@PotatoCruncher12]

serious question, when was there ever a "Humanized" war?

[@SiriProject]

AI was in fact developed for the most part so that missiles can hit their targets in unmanned mode, it is literally its oldest use.

[@incurableromantic4006]

You don't know much about the history of war do you? Do you think it's like CoD?

[@aspitube2515]

@@PotatoCruncher12 Yeah, before it was heavily focused on positioning tactics. But since WW1 they started installing weapons on airplanes, tanks were developed, there was a lot of technological advancements. It made the act of killing way easier. And now, to see we’re using AI to calculate the possible numbers of casualties on a bombing. It objectifies their lives even more, and it takes away the human connection we have with them. It’s not on a personal level anymore.

[@dsaikon]

​@@PotatoCruncher12in the Pre World-War 1 Era, Wars that were fought were often categorized as "Gentlemans Wars" by Historians, due to the strict rules of War European Nations would abide by (this only counts for direct wars between European Powers). For example, Generals and Officers that were captured would be treated with high respect. This is because every kind of breachment of these unspoken rules would reflect badly on the nations ruling classes. For Context, an overwhelming majority of European Powers were Monarchies (most of which also closely or distantly related), and Barbaric Practices of Warfare would reflect badly on the Monarchs reputation. This would make forging new Alliances with that nation less favourable for other nations. An example for such a war would be the Austro-Prussian War. Only a few years after the war, the newly founded German Empire and Austrian Empire would become inseperable allies. The turning point for brutality in Warfare came during WW1, because it was all-or-nothing for everyone involved. Combined with the new technological advancements, war would be focused on the most destruction possible. And nowadays, we have the technologies available to completely wipe us off this planet 3 times.

[@TheKrnGl]

Where are these AI systems running? Google and Amazon?

[@cloudy_jewels]

AI did not tell Israel to bomb anything. Israel just wanted to bomb something, and had AI help it decide who it should be.

[@Fran_Fuentes]

When we used to see in history books the atrocities of the past we always asked ourselves 'how could people allow this?' we are seeing a genocide in a time where news and information are in the palm of our hands.

[@minestar2247]

Like, even people in the 60s didn't understand how that was possible, we really forget fast

[@nickc3657]

The most important part of this story for understanding how the IDF operates is the “Daddy’s home” part.

[@thefourthrabbit9516]

AI face recognition for security check at Chinese school dormitory: Dystopian police state. AI used by IDF to bomb Gaza apartment blocks: The dream of the future.

[@matchghost]

At least the Magi in Evangelion had a human built into it

[@rodmarker2071]

And they beat up students protesting ??? I am glad I am old and close to my time

[@serendipity7921]

This is so dystopian

[@synscient7446]

Biggest issue with this video is that it does not implicate any fault or intent to harm civilians, which makes it miss the biggest cause of this AI use: it absolves blame. If you can blame civilian casualties on a software instead of a specific person, it’s harder to try anyone for war crimes. The only reason this would be used en masse is either knowledgeable disregard for human life, or specific intent to increase human casualties (i.e. genocidal intent). By not pointing this out this video is doing pretty flawed journalism.

[@maherrenad49]

so now we're blaming AI? lol

[@deagle2yadome696]

bro compared it to an aimbot in COD

[@feofino1]

Except Vox cut out the part where it’s only used on drones to make it seem like it was being used on humans. Thats why drones haven’t been much of a problem for infantry. Please research the info feed to you by the these “News” sources with agendas.

[@waynereloaded87]

I think he meant wallhack since the sight wont move your arm towards the target. and by target its mostly not even men.

[@chrisk2592]

My take is that it works like a red dot/scope sight that adjusts the reticule for a selected target to compensate for bullet drop and also target movement, more like the aim assist in WarThunder and less like an aimbot in COD

[@laithmughrabi8990]

Human life is a game for israelis.

[@minestar2247]

​@@laithmughrabi8990even their civilians aren't safe from being used as pawns, like, they still didn't accept back their own peace deal to get back their hostages, while still continuing to invade, potentially killing the hostages, which is absurd

[@rosamski]

Jesus, this is bleak.

[@JohnSmith-mc2zz]

They warned us about this in 2008

[@todddammit4628]

@@JohnSmith-mc2zz Who did?

[@JohnSmith-mc2zz]

@@todddammit4628 Reporters and such. The US launched a drone program.

[@Nedjla-kq9nx]

Yuval Abraham is just a reminder of how important investigative journalism is!

[@incoprea2]

They are blaming Ai for specifically targeting civilians, don't let them get away with war crimes

[@R1IY2N]

They’ve already gotten away with it for now

[@abdelrahmanmekky7011]

today or tomorrow this won't go unpunished

[@user-jr4ru7fe4j]

Then we Should Not sit on our hands and Say nothing and Do Nothing

[@Milytical]

Are you forgetting gaza took the first initiative into Israel?

[@philipmccrackeniii4575]

​@@MilyticalAnd are you forgetting that Israel took the initiative in 1947 and 1948 to start attacking harassing Palestinians?

[@philipmccrackeniii4575]

34000 versus 1200 people?

[@ShaiFishman]

@@Milytical Of course they are..

[@gonderage]

this sounds like a scifi plot with all these comcially villainous names. unfortunately, its not fi

[@EvErLoyaLEagLE]

Watch the movie "Eye In The Sky" - It's essentially "The Trolley Problem," but with drone warfare (it was also Alan Rickman's last movie before he passed away)

[@dariusgoh5314]

Something I’m wondering is how can we trust the authenticity of these sources? Or any journalistic site’s sources for that matter

[@isyrzy]

AI = America & Israel

[@kingace6186]

This is what honest journalism looks like.

[@TomHamelech]

showing only one side of the war isn't "journalism". There are still hostages in Gaza so the IDF is doing what it can. Hamas didn't agree to a fair agreement on the return of the hostages, so Israel is entering Rafah now to try and return the hostages.

[@Balyente]

This tech has been active for years. You just don't know.

[@KoboretaMiruku]

Irresponsible reporting. There's way too much weight being put on one random testimonial from a magazine that has been known to publish falsehoods in the past. The human manual review is the most important aspect of these systems and they are absolutely not just being checked off at a glance. You need far more to substantiate that than a single unsourced quote when the validity of that claim is the largest determiner of whether or not this is blatant disregard for life.

[@thibaultmarfisi]

This isn't true, even if humans were more involved in the process it would still be a war crime.

[@KoboretaMiruku]

@@thibaultmarfisi how so?

[@thibaultmarfisi]

@@KoboretaMiruku Did you watch the video ? It’s pretty clear

[@KoboretaMiruku]

​@@thibaultmarfisiit's not because the video doesn't assert any war crimes, the fact you had to vaguely claim it does rather than clearly articulate an example shows you don't have a clue.

[@thibaultmarfisi]

@@KoboretaMirukuI was merely assuming you were smart enough to know that targeting civilians is a war crime but clearly you’re not