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Amnesty ‘alarmed’ by Israel reportedly using AI-powered systems in Gaza
Alia Al Ghussain, researcher on AI and Human Rights at Amnesty International, spoke to Al Jazeera about the recent reports that Israel has used an AI system called Lavender to identify targets for its bombing campaign in Gaza.
Amnesty International has previously documented how Israel’s use of AI-driven surveillance systems, like facial recognition, have been used to reinforce apartheid and the oppression of Palestinians, she said.
This has been done, she added, “by compounding arbitrary restrictions on freedom of movement and perpetuating a coercive environment intended to force Palestinians out of areas of strategic interest to Israeli authorities”.
The use of AI systems such as remote biometric recognition and autonomous targeting systems, she said, should be seen in the context of the recent ICJ ruling, which stated that it is plausible that Israel’s actions in Gaza could amount to genocide.
Amnesty International harbours “grave concerns” that the use of such systems “risks compounding existing restrictions on freedom of movement and the delivery of humanitarian aid, and contributing to the dehumanisation, violence, extensive destruction of civilian infrastructure, and relentless killings of Palestinians in Gaza,” she said.
US reviewing Israeli probe into killing of WCK staff: Blinken
The US secretary of state says Washington is carefully reviewing Israel’s inquiry into this week’s killing of the WCK aid workers in Gaza.
“It’s very important that Israel is taking full responsibility for this incident,” Blinken told reporters in Brussels.
“It’s also important that it appears to be taking steps to hold those responsible accountable. Even more important is that steps are being taken going forward to ensure that something like this can never happen again.”
Blinken is honest this time at least, it's important to keep up the appearance. Keep up the appearance of carefully reviewing Israel's inquiry into its own crimes of which you are fully complicit.
Thought so
US says it won’t conduct independent probe into aid workers’ killings
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby has said there are no plans by the United States to conduct an independent investigation into the killings of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers by Israeli forces.
