{"id":186997,"date":"2024-04-08T20:24:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/lavender-the-ai-machine-directing-israels-bombing-spree-in-gaza"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:24:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:24:54","slug":"lavender-the-ai-machine-directing-israels-bombing-spree-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/lavender-the-ai-machine-directing-israels-bombing-spree-in-gaza","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lavender\u2019: The AI machine directing Israel\u2019s bombing spree in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lavender-the-ai-machine-directing-israels-bombing-spree-in-gaza2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, a <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.il\/books\/about\/The_Human_Machine_Team_How_to_Create_Syn.html?id=hjl1zgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y\">book<\/a> titled \u201cThe Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World\u201d was released in English under the pen name \u201cBrigadier General Y.S.\u201d In it, the author \u2014 a man who we confirmed to be the current commander of the elite Israeli intelligence unit 8,200 \u2014 makes the case for designing a special machine that could rapidly process massive amounts of data to generate thousands of potential \u201ctargets\u201d for military strikes in the heat of a war. Such technology, he writes, would resolve what he described as a \u201chuman bottleneck for both locating the new targets and decision-making to approve the targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such a machine, it turns out, actually exists. A new investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals that the Israeli army has developed an artificial intelligence-based program known as \u201cLavender,\u201d unveiled here for the first time. According to six Israeli intelligence officers, who have all served in the army during the current war on the Gaza Strip and had first-hand involvement with the use of AI to generate targets for assassination, Lavender has played a central role in the unprecedented bombing of Palestinians, especially during the early stages of the war. In fact, according to the sources, its influence on the military\u2019s operations was such that they essentially treated the outputs of the AI machine \u201cas if it were a human decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Formally, the Lavender system is 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. The sources told +972 and Local Call that, during the first weeks of the war, the army almost completely relied on Lavender, which clocked as many as 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants \u2014 and their homes \u2014 for possible air strikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, a book titled \u201cThe Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World\u201d was released in English under the pen name \u201cBrigadier General Y.S.\u201d In it, the author \u2014 a man who we confirmed to be the current commander of the elite Israeli intelligence unit 8,200 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}