While Silicon Valley doomers worry about an existential threat to humanity posed by AI, they ignore the nightmarish and destructive uses to which it is already being put by the Israeli army
The most horrifying aspect of a report on the use of artificial intelligence by the Israel Defence Forces concerns the guidelines on collateral damage; these inhuman calculations were made not by an AI system, but by the men and women of the IDF. The report quotes IDF intelligence officers on the frictionless ease with which such a software facilitates mass killing.
