Report reveals Israel's AI-driven military campaign in Gaza
Israel's war on Gaza has seen it strike the Palestinian enclave with new and deadly ferocity. That onslaught, according to a recent report, is being powered with an artificial intelligence system that experts warn is indiscriminate and inherently faulty.
During a collaborative investigation, Israeli publications +972 Magazine and Local Call carried out interviews with various former and current Israeli intelligence officials, Middle East Eye reported.
These discussions uncovered that the military's expectations for minimising civilian targets were lower than what was previously assumed.
The combination of relaxed operational guidelines and the deployment of "Habsora" ("The Gospel" in Hebrew), an AI system capable of rapidly generating targets, led to what a former intelligence officer described as a "mass assassination factory".
According to the reports by officials, residences of lower-ranking members of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups were deliberately targeted, even at the cost of potential casualties in the entire building.