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As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies
U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.
Students display a poster of the three sisters, Liane, 10; Taline, 12, and Rimas, 14, who were killed with their grandmother, Samira Ayoub, by an Israeli airstrike days earlier, during a protest in front of the headquarters of U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 9, 2023. One urgent Azure support ticket filed about two weeks after the Oct. 7 attack asked for delays of planned maintenance outages for the rest of the year due to the war, because any downtime could have “a direct impact on life-saving systems.” The request was flagged as being from “Glilot – 8200,” a highly secure army base that houses Unit 8200, responsible for clandestine operations, collecting signal intelligence and code decryption, cyber warfare and surveillance. In a new book set to be published Tuesday, Palantir CEO Alexander Karp calls for the U.S. military and its allies to work closely with Silicon Valley to design, build and acquire AI weaponry, including “the unmanned drone swarms and robots that will dominate the coming battlefield.”
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