The Israeli army using an AI targeting system to mark Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives

 

 The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties,” the left-leaning Israeli news site +972 Magazine reported Wednesday.

The system is allegedly known as “Lavender,” and it’s “designed to mark all suspected operatives in the military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), including low-ranking ones, as potential bombing targets,” +972 reports. “This was despite knowing that the system makes what are regarded as ‘errors’ in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all.”