What if it started actually killing people on a large scale? It’s worth asking…
What is a war crime? Using nuclear weapons at this point would probably qualify. But what about technology that is so new that few humans can even fathom it? Apparently, it is no longer scifi.
I recently heard somewhere that Israel is using artificial intelligence to track targets in Gaza. Here is an article about "Lavender" – detailing exactly how such a system has taken killing decisions out of the hands of humans.
I am hesitant to write about “news” these days because there is so much doubt about credibility, whatever one uses as a source.
“Lavender learns to identify characteristics of known Hamas and PIJ operatives, whose information was fed to the machine as training data, and then to locate these same characteristics — also called “features” — among the general population, the sources explained. An individual found to have several different incriminating features will reach a high rating, and thus automatically becomes a potential target for assassination.” (From the article)...<<<Read More>>>...
