Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used for “mass assassinations” in Gaza according to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
He claims that the majority of bombing targets in the region are determined through AI technology, marking a grim evolution in the use of AI on the battlefield.
Following his release last year Assange told the Council of Europe (PACE): “As I emerge from prison, I see that artificial intelligence is being used to create mass assassinations”
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He added: “Where before there was a difference between assassination and warfare, now the two are conjoined, where many, perhaps the majority, of targets in Gaza are bombed as a result of artificial intelligence targeting”
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The Palestine Chronicle reports: The connection between artificial intelligence and surveillance is important, he continued.
“Artificial intelligence needs information to come up with targets, or ideas, or propaganda. When we are talking about the use of artificial intelligence to conduct mass assassinations, surveillance data from telephones, internet, is key to training those algorithms,” Assange explained.
Israel has carried out several massacres in its ongoing genocidal assault on the besieged Gaza Strip over the past year. This week, close to 100 Palestinians were killed in 24 hours as the Israeli military targeted homes, a school sheltering displaced families as well as an orphanage.
