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I suggest everyone listen to the current season of the Serial podcast.

>processing masses of data to rapidly identify potential “junior” operatives to target. Four of the sources said that, at one stage early in the war, Lavender listed as many as 37,000 Palestinian men who had been linked by the AI system to Hamas or PIJ.

This is really no different than how the world was working in 2001 and choosing who to send to Gitmo and other more secretive prisons, or bombing their location

More than anything else it feels like just like in the corporate world, the engineers in the army are overselling the AI buzzword to do exactly what they were doing before it existed

If you use your paypal account to send money to an account identified as ISIS, you're going to get a visit from a 3 letter organization really quick. This sounds exactly like that from what the users are testifying to. Any decision to bomb or not bomb a location wasn't up to the AI, but to humans



> how the world was working in 2001

By the world you mean the US, but yes you are correct.

"NSA targets SIM cards for drone strikes, ‘Death by unreliable metadata’"

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2475921/whistleblower-...


Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, and Norway were heavily involved in the war on terror. Bombing Afghanistan but also arresting "suspected" people of their own


Australia are the 'easy' cheerleaders of the western alliance. Put it wherever you want.


> how the world was working in 2001 and choosing who to send to Gitmo

"Gitmo" didn't open until 2002




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