“According to B., a common error occurred “if the [Hamas] target gave [his phone] to his son, his older brother, or just a random man. That person will be bombed in his house with his family. This happened often. These were most of the mistakes caused by Lavender,” B. said.”

Theoretically,Lavender is meant to generate kill lists and then a IDF solider would “verify” the target and then kill -“However..the only human supervision protocol in place before bombing the houses of suspected “junior” militants..was to check that the AI-selected target is male rather than female

“In these guides are several examples of the “hundreds&thousands” of features that increase an individual’s rating, such as being in a Whatsapp group with a known militant, changing cell phone every few months, and changing addresses frequently”

current commander of IDF unit 8200 has written a book (“The Human Machine Team”) on these AI weapons’ machine learning algorithms & has *lectured* on this at Tel Aviv university

“…the machine gives almost every single person in Gaza a rating from 1 to 100, expressing how likely it is that they are a militant”

“The Lavender software analyzes information collected on most of the 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip through a system of mass surveillance, then assesses and ranks the likelihood that each particular person is active in the military wing of Hamas or PIJ”

in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official…the army…authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander”

Oh it gets better. Since those hostages didn’t have lily white skin, the IDF mistook them for Pakistani resistance fighters. That’s why they shot first before asking questions

We need to think of how this in tradition of lynching photos. Consolidating national/racial identity by affective enjoyment of Palestinian suffering…