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Weshalb sind in 5 Wochen so hohe Verluste von Zivilisten, vor allem an Frauen und Kindern (70 % aller Opfer) und an Gebäuden bis zur Unbewohnbarkeit ganzer Viertel in Gaza zu verzeichnen. Jetzt bei den neuen Angriffen im Süden haben die Menschen noch weniger Evakuierungsmöglichkeiten, da sich 1,6 Millionen Vertriebene da zusammendrängen.

The Guardian gibt eine militär-technologische Erklärung, wie für einen Tag > 100 Bombenziele von Häusern / Vierteln von der IDF festgelegt werden. ‘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

The Guardian can reveal new details about the Gospel (AI System) and its central role in Israel’s war in Gaza, using interviews with intelligence sources and little-noticed statements made by the IDF and retired officials. .

This article also draws on testimonies published by the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, which have interviewed several current and former sources in Israel’s intelligence community who have knowledge of the Gospel platform (AI-System).

Their comments offer a glimpse inside a secretive, AI-facilitated military intelligence unit that is playing a significant role in Israel’s response to the Hamas massacre in southern Israel on 7 October.

The slowly emerging picture of how Israel’s military is harnessing AI comes against a backdrop of growing concerns about the risks posed to civilians as advanced militaries around the world expand the use of complex and opaque automated systems on the battlefield. ...........

‘Mass assassination factory’

Sources familiar with how AI-based systems have been integrated into the IDF’s operations said such tools had significantly sped up the target creation process.

“We prepare the targets automatically and work according to a checklist,” a source who previously worked in the target division told +972/Local Call. “It really is like a factory. We work quickly and there is no time to delve deep into the target. The view is that we are judged according to how many targets we manage to generate.”

A separate source told the publication the Gospel had allowed the IDF to run a “mass assassination factory” in which the “emphasis is on quantity and not on quality”. A human eye, they said, “will go over the targets before each attack, but it need not spend a lot of time on them”.

For some experts who research AI and international humanitarian law, an acceleration of this kind raises a number of concerns.

Dr Marta Bo, a researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, said that even when “humans are in the loop” there is a risk they develop “automation bias” and “over-rely on systems which come to have too much influence over complex human decisions”.

Hier auf SPON eine zusammenfassende Wiedergabe des Guardian Artikels auf Deutsch: Israel für Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz bei Auswahl von Angriffszielen in der Kritik. Das KI-System »The Gospel« schlägt Angriffsziele zur Bombardierung im Gazastreifen vor. Israels Militär behauptet, zivile Kollateralschäden damit zu begrenzen. Doch Experten zweifeln an der Darstellung.