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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza April 3, 2024 +972 Magazine is een onafhankelijk, online, non-profit tijdschrift dat wordt gerund door een groep Palestijnse en Israëlische journalisten.
‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets. Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants April 3, 2024
The Israeli military’s bombing campaign in Gaza used a previously undisclosed AI-powered database that at one stage identified 37,000 potential targets based on their apparent links to Hamas, according to intelligence sources involved in the war.
Another Lavender user questioned whether humans’ role in the selection process was meaningful. “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added-value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.”
Lavender was developed by the Israel Defense Forces’ elite intelligence division, Unit 8200, which is comparable to the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) or GCHQ in the UK.
“You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people – it’s very expensive for the country and there’s a shortage [of those bombs],” one intelligence officer said. Another said the principal question they were faced with was whether the “collateral damage” to civilians allowed for an attack.
Responding to the publication of the testimonies in +972 and Local Call, the IDF said in a statement that its operations were carried out in accordance with the rules of proportionality under international law. It said dumb bombs are “standard weaponry” that are used by IDF pilots in a manner that ensures “a high level of precision”.
The statement described Lavender as a database used “to cross-reference intelligence sources, in order to produce up-to-date layers of information on the military operatives of terrorist organisations. This is not a list of confirmed military operatives eligible to attack.
After randomly sampling and cross-checking its predictions, the unit concluded Lavender had achieved a 90% accuracy rate, the sources said, leading the IDF to approve its sweeping use as a target recommendation tool.
Lavender created a database of tens of thousands of individuals who were marked as predominantly low-ranking members of Hamas’s military wing, they added. This was used alongside another AI-based decision support system, called the Gospel, which recommended buildings and structures as targets rather than individuals.
The testimonies published by +972 and Local Call may explain how such a western military with such advanced capabilities, with weapons that can conduct highly surgical strikes, has conducted a war with such a vast human toll.
According to +972 and Local Call, the IDF judged it permissible to kill more than 100 civilians in attacks on a top-ranking Hamas officials. “We had a calculation for how many [civilians could be killed] for the brigade commander, how many [civilians] for a battalion commander, and so on,” one source said.
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‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza. Concerns over data-driven ‘factory’ that significantly increases the number of targets for strikes in the Palestinian territory
From 50 targets a year to 100 a day
In early November, the IDF said “more than 12,000” targets in Gaza had been identified by its target administration division.
a short statement on the IDF website claimed it was using an AI-based system called Habsora (the Gospel, in English) in the war against Hamas to “produce targets at a fast pace”.
In recent years, the target division has helped the IDF build a database of what sources said was between 30,000 and 40,000 suspected militants.
Aviv Kochavi, who served as the head of the IDF until January, has said the target division is “powered by AI capabilities” and includes hundreds of officers and soldiers. In an interview published before the war, he said it was “a machine that produces vast amounts of data more effectively than any human, and translates it into targets for attack”.
Precisely what forms of data are ingested into the Gospel is not known. But experts said AI-based decision support systems for targeting would typically analyse large sets of information from a range of sources, such as
drone footage,
intercepted communications,
surveillance data and
information drawn from monitoring the movements and
behaviour patterns of individuals and large groups.
Since senior Hamas officials disappeared into tunnels at the start of any new offensive, sources said, systems such as the Gospel allowed the IDF to locate and attack a much larger pool of more junior operatives.
“Hamas members who don’t really mean anything live in homes across Gaza. So they mark the home and bomb the house and kill everyone there.”
A former senior Israeli military source told the Guardian that operatives use a “very accurate” measurement of the rate of civilians evacuating a building shortly before a strike. “We use an algorithm to evaluate how many civilians are remaining. It gives us a green, yellow, red, like a traffic signal.”
“We prepare the targets automatically and work according to a checklist,” a source who previously worked in the target division told +972/Local Call. “It really is like a factory. We work quickly and there is no time to delve deep into the target. The view is that we are judged according to how many targets we manage to generate.”
A human eye, they said, “will go over the targets before each attack, but it need not spend a lot of time on them”.
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Boek: The Human-Machine Team_ How to Create Synergy Between Human -- Y. S Brigadier General -- 2021 (*) 1)
One of the world's leading managers in the field of Artificial Intelligence unveils the secrets to creating synergy between human and artificial intelligence that will revolutionize our world.
Today, we are merely at the threshold of the acceleration of the Digital Era. But what will happen in the coming years, when artificial intelligence (AI) is going to dramatically change the world?
A machine can use big data to generate information better than humans. However, a machine can’t understand context, doesn’t have feelings or ethics, and can’t think ‘out of the box’. Therefore, rather than prioritize between humans and machines, we should create The Human-Machine Team, which will combine human intelligence and artificial intelligence, creating a ‘super cognition’.
Y. S Brigadier General, an expert analyst, technology director, commander of an elite intelligence unit, and winner of the prestigious Israel Defense Prize for his artificial intelligence based anti-terrorism project, wrote his book, The Human-Machine Team, to address how the combination between human and artificial intelligence can solve national security challenges and threats, lead to victory in war, and be a growth engine for humankind. He offers a new perspective on how to lead nations and organizations to the future that has already become the present.
In one chapter of the book, he provides a template for how to construct an effective targets machine drawing on “big data” that a human brain could not process. “The machine needs enough data regarding
the battlefield,
the population,
visual information,
cellular data,
social media connections,
“people who are with a Hezbollah member in a WhatsApp group,
pictures,
cellphone contacts,”
people who get new cellphones every few months, those who change their addresses frequently”.
he writes. “The more data and the more varied it is, the better.”
“A team consisting of machines and investigators can blast the bottleneck wide open.”
The identity of the officer has been revealed to be Brigadier General Yossi Sariel. His book "The Human Machine Team" was touted as a groundbreaking effort ... bronnen Google
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online ... 5 april 2024 Exclusive: Yossi Sariel unmasked as head of Unit 8200 and architect of AI strategy after book written under pen name reveals his Google account The Guardian has confirmed with multiple sources that Sariel is the secret author of The Human Machine Team, a book in which he offers a radical ...
Sariel argued in the published book three years ago that his ideas about using machine learning to transform modern warfare should become mainstream. “We just need to take them from the periphery and deliver them to the centre of the stage,” he wrote.
Sariel is understood to have written the book with the IDF’s permission after a year as a visiting researcher at the US National Defense University in Washington DC, where he made the case for using AI to transform modern warfare.
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(1) Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security .... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse .
(2) The Mind-Blowing Story of How a Top Israeli Spy Chief Blew His Cover - MSN. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-mind-blowing-story-of-how-a-top-israeli-spy-chief-blew-his-cover/ar-BB1l8Shy .
(3) Top Israeli Spy Chief Accidentally Revealed His True Identity Online .... https://www.thedailybeast.com/israeli-spy-chief-accidentally-revealed-his-true-identity-online-report.
SECURITY Israel's top spy chief, Yossi Sariel, accidentally revealed his identity
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Brigadier General Yossi Sariel (2021 or earlier — present)[24][1]
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