‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

This is a monstrosity, complete dehumanization of Palestinian people by Israeli armed forces (and probably by an important part of Israeli population, very sadly) (important enough to allow this, and not fight back themselves). The more they try to achieve security with these atrocious means, the farther they'll be from it

#Israel #genocide #palestine #gaza #972mag #Lavender #AI #militaryAI

"In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorithmically based warfighting. We draw from a corpus of DoD grant solicitations from 2007 to 2023, focusing on those addressed to researchers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Considering the implications of DoD funding for academic research, the paper proceeds through three analytic sections. In the first, we offer a critical examination of the distinction between basic and applied research, showing how funding calls framed as basic research nonetheless enlist researchers in a war fighting agenda. In the second, we offer a diachronic analysis of the corpus, showing how a 'one small problem' caveat, in which affirmation of progress in military technologies is qualified by acknowledgement of outstanding problems, becomes justification for additional investments in research. We close with an analysis of DoD aspirations based on a subset of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant solicitations for the use of AI in battlefield applications. Taken together, we argue that grant solicitations work as a vehicle for the mutual enlistment of DoD funding agencies and the academic AI research community in setting research agendas. The trope of basic research in this context offers shelter from significant moral questions that military applications of one's research would raise, by obscuring the connections that implicate researchers in U.S. militarism."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17840

#AI #DoD #USA #AIWarfare #MilitaryAI #DARPA