Tag: Jerusalem

Tag Archives: Jerusalem

15Apr/24

Gaza war: Israel using AI to identify human targets raising fears that innocents are being caught in the net

April 15, 2024Conflict and WarArtificial intelligence, Bombing of the Gaza Strip, Christopher Coker, Computational neuroscience, Creative Commons, Cybernetics, Data science, Drone warfare, Elke Schwarz, Gaza, Hamas, Israel Defense Forces, Jerusalem, Katrina Manson, Lethal autonomous weapon, United Statesadmin

Elke Schwarz, Queen Mary University of London

A report by Jerusalem-based investigative journalists published in +972 magazine finds that AI targeting systems have played a key role in identifying – and potentially misidentifying – tens of thousands of targets in Gaza. This suggests that autonomous warfare is no longer a future scenario. It is already here and the consequences are horrifying.

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14May/23

Israel at 75: how inept British intelligence failed to contain Jewish independence groups

May 14, 2023PoliticsAlan Cunningham, Begin’s Irgun, BEIRUT, Ben-Gurion, Bernard Lewis, Creative Commons, David Ben-Gurion, Gordon Trevor Moore, Haganah, Hitler, Irgun, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Israel, John Ferris, Kim Philby, London, Mandatory Palestine, National liberation movements, Nationalism, Palestinian Territories, Paris, Resistance movements, Revisionist Zionism, Samuel Stalbow, Shamir, Steven Wagner, United Kingdom, Western Asia, Yishuv, Yitzhak Shamir, Zionist terrorismadmin

Steven Wagner, Brunel University London

Before they were Israeli, the Jewish community of Palestine – the Yishuv – had been Britain’s close junior partner. A dispute over Britain’s restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine began in 1939, but was set aside during the struggle to defeat Hitler.

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