‘Worst kind of genocide’ : People in #Gaza were killed block by block at the will of an Israeli occupation #AI machine

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‘Worst kind of genocide’: People in #Gaza were killed block by block at the will of an Israeli occupation #AI machine

Israeli journalist #YuvalAbraham’s investigation into an Israeli military AI program has revealed that Tel Aviv’s special services and the army let a machine decide the destiny of the people it suspected of being jihadists – and then execute them on the spot with huge “collateral damage.”

“The Lavender AI program or some other targeting program the Israelis are using – its purpose is not to destroy enemies. Instead, it has been designed to destroy blocks of real estate… And the destruction of the people living in those buildings is the bloodthirsty confirmation of the worst kind of secret genocide,” former US State Department analyst Scott Bennett tells Sputnik.

“What Lavender does is scan the information on the people inside a given building in Gaza. The artificial intelligence, i.e. a machine, gives every individual a rating (on a scale from 1 to 100) on the likelihood that this individual is a member of Hamas or the military wing of Islamic Jihad group,” Yuval Abraham explained in an interview to Democracy Now.

“In the next step, the machine ordered the destruction of the building with people inside it, including children. There was minimal human supervision of AI’s actions – one of my sources said he usually spent 20 seconds before authorizing the bombing.”

While Abraham’s investigation cited 6 high-ranking Israeli officers acquainted with AI use, the IDF is yet to face the accusations. Reham Owda, an independent political analyst from Gaza, shared his opinion with Sputnik: “This means that Israel chose the easiest and the cheapest way to target Hamas militants.”