# AI is selecting Killing Targets for Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

- Link: https://smartnuts.com/2023/12/05/ai-is-selecting-killing-targets-for-israel-defense-forces-idf/
- Veröffentlicht: 2023-12-05T22:08:13+01:00
- Autor: Michael Bunzel

Ein interessanter Artikel aus dem Guardian zum AI-gestützten Tötungsprogramm (Arbeitstitel“
The Gospel”) der IDF …

Money quote: According to Kochavi, “once this machine was activated” in Israel’s
11-day war with Hamas in May 2021 it generated 100 targets a day. “To put that into
perspective, in the past we would produce 50 targets in Gaza per year. Now, this
machine produces 100 targets a single day, with 50% of them being attacked.”^([1](https://smartnuts.com/2023/12/05/ai-is-selecting-killing-targets-for-israel-defense-forces-idf/#d73770a2-2cd7-49ac-9359-d278b0e75e69))

geht man davon aus, dass die AI-Tötungsentscheidungen noch einmal händisch durch
Menschen verifiziert werden. Diesbezüglich gibt der Artikel wie folgt Auskunft: “
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”.

Ich meine – macht ja auch Sinn: Falls man dann doch mal jemanden tötet, den die 
AI fälschlich getaggt hat, dann ist das halt ein bedauerlicher Softwarefehler – 
muß man halt die Gewichtsverteilung im neuronalen Netz noch ein wenig adjustieren.

Ach … und noch ein Statement, welches Mut für die Zukunft gibt: “Other states are
going to be watching and learning,” said a former White House security official 
familiar with the US military’s use of autonomous systems.

 1. Link: [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets)
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