Summary
A book released in English in 2021 under the pen name “Brigadier General Y.S.,” its author confirmed in ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza to be the current commander of Unit 8200, making the case for designing a machine that could rapidly process massive amounts of data to generate thousands of potential “targets” for military strikes (line 86).
Details
- Its full title as given is “The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World” (line 86).
- Such a machine would resolve what the author described as a “human bottleneck for both locating the new targets and decision-making to approve the targets” (line 86).
- The book advocates for such a system without referencing Lavender by name, and offers a short guide to building a “target machine” based on AI and machine-learning algorithms, similar in description to Lavender (lines 146-148).
- Features that can increase an individual’s rating include being in a Whatsapp group with a known militant, changing cell phone every few months, and changing addresses frequently (line 148). “The more information, and the more variety, the better” (line 150).
- While humans select the features at first, over time the machine will come to identify features on its own; this can enable militaries to create “tens of thousands of targets,” while the decision whether to attack them will remain a human one (line 150).
Related pages
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza, Lavender, Unit 8200