The Human Control of Israeli AI Warfare ‘Could Be Very Brief.’
The Human Control of Israeli AI Warfare ‘Could Be Very Brief.’
No shit.
Finally, an admission that artificial intelligence might be quicker than human reaction. Perhaps, like Superman, able to ‘leap tall buildings, and faster than a speeding bullet.’
If there is to be an international indictment for ‘War Crimes,’ the United States must be included as a ‘co-conspirator.’ Certainly (although it’s very controversial in the case of Israel). In a court of law, the entity that provides the weapon in a murder case is as guilty as the person (or entity) that fires it.
That might be the case in companies such as Palantir, that provide AI software for just those purposes.
As an example, it is supposed that Palantir (a company that contracts with the Pentagon), was responsible for the girl’s school deaths in an early Iranian bombing by America, because the maps that showed the building was no longer in military use were not upgraded.
A small software mistake, but major problem for the 175 girls who died.
In the unprovoked attack on Iran by Israel (supported by US military hardware), they apparently used their own systems:
Lavender (which identifies people,
The Gospel (identifying locations), and
Where’s Daddy? (which monitors movements of selected individuals).
It’s good to have an active sense of humor when naming the tools of death.
Such a comfort to know that ‘Where’s Daddy’ exterminated your father, along with whoever else was accompanying him home from the theater or grocery shop, maybe your two sisters and/or mother at his side.
According to my sources, during the June 2025 strikes on Iran (Operation Rising Lion, another name for the ages), Israel attacked nuclear facilities, missile sites, senior IRGC commanders, and scientists in a highly coordinated operation that also involved Mossad teams and drones already positioned inside Iran.
Public reportingfails to emphasize (because why would it?) extensive intelligence preparation and covert operations, nor does it identify which AI targeting software, if any, selected those targets.
Even so, defense analysts believe AI-assisted intelligence almost certainly played a role because the operation required the rapid integration of satellite imagery, signals intelligence, intercepted communications, drone surveillance, and human intelligence.
AI is about the only way to fuse these sources and prioritize targets.
(Guardian UK) Israeli Command System Identified 850,000 Targets in Gaza and Lebanon Wars, Says Supplier. In the gobbledygook department, the article further states that
“an Elbit (the supplier of note) spokesperson denied that the 850,000 figure cited by Edelstein referred to targets, despite the slide specifying this, saying it reflected “aggregated system activity and operational data generated through the IDF’s digital army program across all operational theaters since October 7, 2023.”
Well, I guess that’s comforting for the victims to know.
“The spokesperson added that it demonstrated the volume of information being processed by the Israeli military: “The figures represent system activity and operational data, rather than the number of enemy targets or actual strikes.”
“Bryant said it was impossible for soldiers in any military to adequately assess each piece of information to conclude if the threat was real and the target legal at the volumes indicated.
“I will say, definitively, that there is no way each and every one of the 1,000 targets a day – let alone 850,000 targets in aggregate – are thoroughly and effectively characterised in terms of collateral damage analysis and assessed risk to civilian populations. Even characterising 50 a day is hard enough (but possible),” the former US military officer said.
Cartoon character, POGO, told us decades ago that “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
Thank you, cartoonist Walt Kelly for that observation, decades before its time…
As Mark Twain was fond of saying,
“History does not always repeat, but it rhymes”