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    Israel built an ‘AI factory’ for war. It unleashed it in Gaza. | Years before the Gaza war, Israel transformed its intelligence unit into an AI testing ground, triggering a debate among top commanders about whether humans were sufficiently in the loop.
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    Israel built an ‘AI factory’ for war. It unleashed it in Gaza. | Years before the Gaza war, Israel transformed its intelligence unit into an AI testing ground, triggering a debate among top commanders about whether humans were sufficiently in the loop.


    Israel built an ‘AI factory’ for war. It unleashed it in Gaza. | Years before the Gaza war, Israel transformed its intelligence unit into an AI testing ground, triggering a debate among top commanders about whether humans were sufficiently in the loop.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/29/ai-israel-war-gaza-idf/

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    1. MetaKnowing on

      TLDR Israel’s military is using AI tools that rapidly generate potential targets and analyze intelligence data

      * The IDF’s “Lavender” system assigns percentage scores predicting how likely Palestinians are to be militant group members, but this requires human analysts to review and validate the predictions, typically with additional intelligence sources (though the two-source verification requirement was reduced to one source during the war)
      * When estimating casualties, human analysts use AI tools that combine drone footage analysis and cell phone data to calculate occupancy rates, which they then present to commanders who make the final decision.
      * The intelligence unit (8200) underwent a significant cultural shift, moving to one that increasingly prioritized technological solutions – a change that some argue contributed to missing human warnings before October 7th.
      * While the AI systems dramatically increased the speed of target generation (from 50 targets per year to 100 per day), there remained a human review process where intelligence analysts could investigate the AI’s reasoning by double-clicking to see the underlying information that led to specific recommendations.

    2. tianavitoli on

      oh the computer says bomb the kids I guess we have no choice this thing is artificially intelligent

    3. PowderMuse on

      After this is over it would be great to analyse the data. My guess is it saved lives.

    4. xoverthirtyx on

      ‘A mass assassination factory’ according to a [report by +972](https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/). 100,000+ civilian murders does not a success make.

      The report is based on conversations with seven current and former members of Israel’s intelligence community — including military intelligence and air force personnel who were involved in Israeli operations in the besieged Strip — in addition to Palestinian testimonies, data, and documentation from the Gaza Strip, and official statements by the IDF Spokesperson and other Israeli state institutions.

    5. Bright_Newspaper2379 on

      yeah, and Muhammad owned slaves, but that’s a different kind of factory…say Natural-Intelligence for the win, dude was a *baller!*

    6. KRE1ON on

      So, the AI assumes male age 15-60+ are potential threats, and suggests putting a target on them.

      The only difference between AI and a human is having a moral compass.

    8. sirjimtonic on

      For anyone interested, have a look into Bob Work‘s concepts of Human Machine Teaming and the Centaur Army. You can google it.

    9. SweetChiliCheese on

      Stupidity really has no end for the Homo Sapiens Sapiens. We are doing everything wrong.