Israel Is Using An AI Program Dubbed "The Gospel" To Select Targets In Gaza

‘To claim there’s precision and narrowness of force being exerted is not borne out by the facts,’ said one researcher. Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPA 

The Guardian: ‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza  

Concerns over data-driven ‘factory’ that significantly increases the number of targets for strikes in the Palestinian territory 

Israel’s military has made no secret of the intensity of its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. In the early days of the offensive, the head of its air force spoke of relentless, “around the clock” airstrikes. His forces, he said, were only striking military targets, but he added: “We are not being surgical.” 

There has, however, been relatively little attention paid to the methods used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to select targets in Gaza, and to the role artificial intelligence has played in their bombing campaign. 

As Israel resumes its offensive after a seven-day ceasefire, there are mounting concerns about the IDF’s targeting approach in a war against Hamas that, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, has so far killed more than 15,000 people in the territory.  

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Update: Israeli AI ‘Assassination Factory’ Plays Central Role in the Gaza War (Antiwar.com)  

WNU Editor: The software, computer networks, and the surveillance platforms that are being used to gather the intelligence that makes this possible must be incredibly complex and massive. But it explains why Israel is able to launch each day the large number of attacks that it claims are against Hamas targets.