In 2019, the Israeli army created a special unit to create targets with the help of generative AI. Its objective: volume, volume, volume.
The effects on civilians (harm, suffering, death) are not a priority: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

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#AI #Habsora estimates in advance the number of innocents killed for each "generated" bombing target:

"Five different sources confirmed that the number of civilians who may be killed in attacks on private residences is known in advance to Israeli intelligence, and appears clearly in the target file under the category of “collateral damage.”

According to these sources, there are degrees of collateral damage, according to which the army determines whether it is possible to attack a target inside a private residence. “When the general directive becomes ‘Collateral Damage 5,’ that means we are authorized to strike all targets that will kill five or less civilians — we can act on all target files that are five or less,” said one of the sources."

Report: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

#tech #engineering #generativeAI #industrialization #revenge #Gaza #war #warOnPalestine #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelPalestineWar #bombardment #bombs #shelling #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #highTech #israel

‘Mass assassination factory’

“We prepare the targets automatically and work according to a checklist,” a source who previously worked in the Target Division told +972/Local Call. “It really is like a factory. We work quickly and there is no time to delve deep into the target. The view is that we are judged according to how many targets we manage to generate.”

A separate source told the publication that the Habsora AI had allowed the IDF to run a “mass assassination factory” in which the “emphasis is on quantity and not on quality”. A human eye, they said, “will go over the targets before each attack, but it need not spend a lot of time on them”.

Report: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

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A person who took part in previous Israeli offensives in Gaza said:
“If they would tell the whole world that the [Islamic Jihad] offices on the 10th floor are not important as a target, but that its existence is a justification to bring down the entire high-rise with the aim of pressuring civilian families who live in it in order to put pressure on terrorist organizations, this would itself be seen as terrorism. So they do not say it.”

+972 and Local Call investigated: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

(to be continued)

#airStrikes #bombing #weapons #arms #terrorism #counterTerrorism #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelHamas #Hamas #Habsora #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #tech #israel #army #productivity #ethics #bias #aiEthics #collateralDamage #casualties #civilians

The first AI war was in May 2021.

#IDI stands for the Intelligence Division of the Israel army. Here is some praise of technology usage:

May 2021 "is the first time that the intelligence services have played such a transformative role at the tactical level.

This is the result of a strategic shift made by the IDI [in] recent years. Revisiting its role in military operations, it established a comprehensive, “one-stop-shop” intelligence war machine, gathering all relevant players in intelligence planning and direction, collection, processing and exploitation, analysis and production, and dissemination process (PCPAD)".

Avi Kalo: https://www.frost.com/frost-perspectives/ai-enhanced-military-intelligence-warfare-precedent-lessons-from-idfs-operation-guardian-of-the-walls/

(to be continued) 🧶#longThread

#EstelleSays #history #BigData #analytics #planning #CrowdSourcing #intelligence #CROSINT #MilInt #military #AIWar #AIWarfare #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelHamas #Hamas #Habsora #israel #army #productivity #ethics #bias #AIEthics #AIRisks #organizations #engineering #EstelleInterprets

"The deployment of AI applications and Big Data Analytics across all domains during the campaign gave the IDF a genuine military edge on the battlefield over its historical adversary Hamas.

"Firstly, AI enhanced and speeded up the scale, capacity, and lethality of targeting processes during real-time engagements, with IAF pilots attacking targets on the ground, based on AI outputs. […]

"Secondly, for the first time ever, […] AI-enabled platforms armed target recognition systems with probability-based forecasts of enemy behavior, and provided identification support on the ground. ML was also leveraged to learn, track, and discover targets from the data obtained. In summary, the IDF successfully used AI-oriented automatic target recognition and acquisition (ATR). […]

"Last, but not least, the campaign […] resulted in an exponential increase in the volume of on ground, battlefield information to complement Crowd-sourced Intelligence (CROSINT) analytics."

@dataGovernance @data @ai

Behind any aircraft that takes off for an attack, there are thousands of soldiers, men and women, who make the information accessible to the pilot. "They produce the targets and make the targets accessible. To set a target, it’s a process with lots of factors that need to be approved. The achievement, the collateral damage and the level of accuracy. For that, you have to interconnect intelligence, (weapon) fire, C4I [an integrated military communications system, including the interaction of troops, intelligence and communication equipment] and more," said Nati Cohen, currently a reservist in the Exercises Division of the C4I Division of the army.

Published in 2021 in a security mag: https://israeldefense.co.il/en/node/50155 @military

#data #analytics #planning #intelligence #MilInt #military #army #C4I #ES2 #IDI #productivity #ethics #AIWar #AIWarfare #AIRisks #collateralDamage #casualties #civilians #airStrikes #bombing #weapons #arms #terrorism #counterTerrorism #israel #israelGazaWar #warCrimes

"The unit is engaged in the same kind of AI work that the world’s biggest tech companies, like Google, Facebook and China’s Baidu are doing in a race to apply machine learning to such functions as self-driving cars, analysis of salespeople’s telephone pitches and cybersecurity — or to fight Israel’s next war more intelligently."

“I’ve always loved algorithms. I was already involved with them in high school and worked in the field. When I [was] drafted I wanted to combine the technology with a combat,” Maj. Sefi Cohen, 34, recalls.

The unit’s only female member left recently. so for the moment it’s an all-male team. Cohen says: “Everyone who’s here is the tops.”

"Tiny IDF Unit Is Brains Behind Israeli Army Artificial Intelligence", Haaretz, 2017: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2017-08-15/ty-article/tiny-idf-unit-is-brains-behind-israeli-army-artificial-intelligence/0000017f-e35b-d7b2-a77f-e35fc8f40000

#startups #StartupNation #successStory #masculinity #manhood #manliness #force #patriarchy #elite #segregation #history #data #analytics #planning #C4I #ES2 #IDI #IDF #Habsora #merit #tech #techCulture #AI #sociology

Lt.-Col. Nurit Cohen Inger has overseen #Data at the Israeli #military’s Computer Service Directorate. She showed her enthusiasm on #AIWar to JNS.org in 2017:

“The top level in this field of big data is to have a system that makes recommendations on what to do, based on the data. We are there.”

In theory, this could figure out where to direct strikes, to achieve maximum damage.

Inger said AI “can influence every step and small decision in a conflict, and the entire conflict itself.”

“For this system to work, it has to function at a very high level,” she added. “AI is a machine that has the intelligence characteristics of a person—in this case, by giving recommendations.”

Human commanders will still make the final decisions, Inger said, but they will receive “very precise and relevant recommendations. This is happening, and it will happen much more.”

https://www.jns.org/artificial-intelligence-shaping-the-idf-in-ways-never-imagined-2/ @dataGovernance @data @ai @israel @ethics @military @idf

#intelligence #MilInt #C4I #ES2 #IDI #IDF #Habsora

"In this episode we talked with Sefi Cohen, head of Data Science squad in the IDF. He tells us about the different projects they're doing and how he started a Data Science team with very little knowledge of Machine Learning and Data Science techniques, how he chose the right people for this team and how they all learned the craft together."

(December 2017) https://podtail.com/en/podcast/unsupervised/what-do-data-scientists-do-in-the-army-with-sefi-c/ @dataGovernance @data @ai @israel @ethics @military @idf @terrorism

#tech #techCulture #teamWork #BigBoys #army #DataScience #intelligence #MilInt #C4I #IDI #IDF #Habsora #Matzpen #history #data #analytics #planning #CrowdSourcing #CROSINT #military #dataDon #dataGovernance #dataMining #dataCapture #technoSolutionnism #techCulture #engineering #engineers #generativeAI #fix #externalities #productivity #ethics #bias #AIWar #AIWarfare #AIEthics #AIRisks #collateralDamage #casualties #civilians #dehumanisation #airStrikes #bombing #weapons #arms #terrorism #counterTerrorism #israel #israelGazaWar #Hamas

“Levy describes a system that has almost reached perfection. The political echelon wants to maintain the status quo, and the military provides it with legitimacy in exchange for funds and status.”

“Levy points out the gradual withdrawal of the old Ashkenazi middle class from the ranks of the combat forces[…]:
• the military’s complete reliance on technology as a decisive factor in warfare;
• the adoption of the concept […] of an army that is “small and lethal”;
• the obsession with the idea of #deterrence, which is supposed to negate the other side’s will to fight; and
• the complete addiction to the status quo as the only possible and desirable state of affairs.”

https://www.972mag.com/yagil-levy-army-middle-class/ @israel @ethics @military @idf

#reputation #technoCriticism #tech #techCulture #BigBoys #army #intelligence #MilInt #IDF #data #analytics #dataMining #technoSolutionnism #fix #externalities #productivity #ethics #AIWar #AIWarfare #AIEthics #AIRisks #dehumanisation #israel #israelGazaWar #technique