Summary
Former IDF Chief of Staff who described the army’s AI target-generation machine and the Targets Administrative Division in an in-depth interview with Ynet earlier in 2023, as quoted in ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza (lines 246-250).
Details
- “The Targets Administrative Division is a unit that includes hundreds of officers and soldiers, and is based on AI capabilities” (line 246).
- “This is a machine that, with the help of AI, processes a lot of data better and faster than any human, and translates it into targets for attack” (line 250).
- In Operation Guardian of the Walls in 2021, from the moment the machine was activated “it generated 100 new targets every day”, against times in Gaza when 50 targets per year were created: “And here the machine produced 100 targets in one day.” (line 250)
Related pages
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza, Habsora, Targets Administrative Division