This is a long piece from the Guardian, but I found it worth reading. It's a broad history of military targeting, chains of decision-making, and how "AI" is just a wrapper being blamed for a bigger Palantir project to speed up the process of targeting and eliminate any chance of double-checking in the moment.
But importantly, the piece doesn't treat this as something new either but cites similar targeting clusterfucks in 2003 and even back to the Vietnam war era.
"AI got the blame" - it's always the tool and never the trigger puller in these wretched articles about Hi Tek and the Military.
Did you read the headline?
@tuban_muzuru Oh gosh, I'm afraid I made an assumption about your media literacy!
You see, headlines don't inherently reflect content. They're often not even written by the author and may contradict the content or approach of the piece.
Fortunately, this piece was referred to me by someone who had actually read it. I also read it. And while I don't agree with the author on every point, I thought it was well worth reading and poorly represented by the headline. I recommended it.
Good luck!
I read it too and strongly approve of it, as well, if not on all points.
Forgive my over-gnomic utterances.
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