"'Lavender’: 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"

A source both 972 and the Guardian cite asserts once this system had selected a target, a human would only spend about 20 seconds reviewing it. (972 states the only criteria were "is the target male" and whether the number of collateral casualties on a strike location would be over the IDF's limit.)

@mcc this is… precisely how Obama used to approve drone strikes?

There were physical characteristics and things like “basically all males over 15 are enemy combatants”, then they made lists and executed people. It’s not new (I’m not saying it’s not horrifying, I just want to throw another tidbit in for the war criminal who won the Nobel peace prize for nuclear disarmament, then cutting a country to the wind that did exactly that in exchange for promises of defense. I digress)

@jason @mcc iirc "bug splats" was the term the US military used(uses?) for the count of people murdered that weren't specific targets.

"AI" tools are used for all sorts of horrifying things in our legal system these days too.