Concern over AI use in Gaza war


Life amid the ruins: Children playing in the rubble of a destroyed building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. — AFP

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed serious concern over reports that Israel was using Artificial Intelligence to identify targets in Gaza, resulting in many civilian deaths.

According to a report in independent Israeli-Palestinian magazine +972, Israel has used AI to identify targets in Gaza – in some cases with as little as 20 seconds of human oversight.

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