bsmall2Mar 8
> When Futurism reached out to the Pentagon regarding the use of AI in recent military operations — specifically the targeting of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school — we were referred to US CENTCOM, one of eleven unified commands under the Pentagon’s umbrella.
> “We have nothing for you on this at this time,” #CENTCOM said.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-ai-claude-bombing-elementary-school
#SalamiMilitary #AITargeting #PentagonAI #NeilPostman's (?maybe? ) #AgenticShift comes to mind..
/HT @jonny via @hacks4pancakes
Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target

Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?

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> ... the Israeli army had.. an AI system called “Lavender”.. select targets.. on Gaza, similarly to how the Pentagon is reportedly using Claude in Iran. According to.. intelligence officers, Lavender played a “central role” in the destruction of Gaza and its population, identifying at least 37,000 Palestinians as targets for aerial assassination.
> .. one intelligence operative told +972, Lavender’s decisions.. attack targets in their homes.. treated “as if it were a human decision” by military operatives.
#MegaMachine #NotUsDeathMachines
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> “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added-value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.”
> The trend presages a brutal new era of warfare in which it’s no longer clear whether humans, or at least humans alone, are making life-and-death decisions about where to deploy the deadliest arsenal in human history — even when the casualties are dozens of schoolchildren.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-ai-claude-bombing-elementary-school
#JoeWilkins on #AutomatedMurder #AutomatedAtrocity
#WarSalami
Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target

Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?

Futurism