Israel’s use of AI in Gaza is coming under closer scrutiny

That nightmarish vision of war with humans ostensibly in control but shorn of real understanding of their actions, killing in rote fashion, seems to have come to pass in Gaza. This is the message of two reports published by +972 Magazine, a left-wing Israeli news outlet, the most recent one on April 3rd. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have reportedly developed artificial-intelligence (AI) tools known as “The Gospel” and “Lavender” to “mark” suspected operatives of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, two militant groups, as targets for bombing, according to Israeli officers familiar with the systems.