According to media reports, the Israel Defense Forces used an artificial intelligence system called “Lavender” to identify targets in the Gaza Strip in the first weeks after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. Citing sources in Israeli intelligence, he also claims that permission was given to kill civilians in a situation of “hunting” lower-ranking Hamas fighters.
Artificial intelligence in the Gaza Strip. Authorization to kill civilians
According to intelligence sources, the Israeli military used a previously undisclosed artificial intelligence database during its bombings in Gaza, which at one stage identified 37,000 potential targets. One media source claims that “there were situations in which Hamas was defined more broadly.” – Then the system suggested all kinds of civil defense workers and policemen – he adds. +972 Magazine reports that “Lavender” sometimes recognized people who were not affiliated with Hamas as Hamas fighters. The software error was supposed to be 10%. Two Israeli intelligence sources said they were allowed to kill 15-20 civilians during attacks on lower-ranking fighters in the first weeks of the war. The IDF was supposed to be aware of this, but the military only approved the choices the machine made and spent “about 20 seconds” on it at most. +972 Magazine claims that the military only made sure the target was male.
Israeli intelligence officer: The machine did it coldly
– This is something unheard of – says one of the intelligence officers quoted by “The Guardian” and who used “Lavender”. The military officer adds that in this case he believed in the machine, which was “more effective than a grieving soldier.”
Everyone there, including me, lost people on October 7 (during the Hamas attack on Israel – ed). The machine did it cold. And that made it easier
– said the officer. Six Israeli intelligence officials say Lavender played a “key role in the war by processing masses of data.” “The Guardian” reports that the system was developed by the elite intelligence branch of the IDF – unit 8200, comparable to the American National Security Agency, i.e. the British intelligence service GCHQ. Let us recall that on Monday, the Israeli army fired on a convoy of the World Central Kitchen organization. Volunteers helped the people of Gaza. Seven people were killed as a result of the shelling. Among the victims was a Pole, Damian Soból. Israel explained the shelling with suspicions that a Hamas fighter was traveling in the convoy.
Source: Gazeta
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