[runarberg]

We also have to be open to the possibility that Israel is committing a genocide and the goal is to kill as many Palestinians as possible and terrorize the rest. That the AI system’s main purpose isn’t to be accurate in selecting target, but rather to manufacture a reason to kill more Palestinians than a human ever could. Another function could be to remove accountability from a targeting officer. Zero-error is never really a desired feature, in fact zero-error would be a bug, as it would prevent the genocide being conducted efficiently.

What we may be witnessing is the first information age level genocide, where the killing is done at the behest of a statistical function with near infinite computing power.

[xyzelement]

This is an obviously wrong analysis. Killing the most people possible would require no AI in this situation.

[runarberg]

Killing the most people possible without being held accountable and still receiving support from the USA then.

[goatlover]

And incredibly inefficient genocide. Why is it that modern discourse has become so polarized that criticism has to make the worst possible accusations?

[runarberg]

These are the same accusations made among world leaders, human rights organizations, the UN, and the World Court. We should be free to make these accusations here on HN too.

This is a strong accusation, but it has the evidence behind it. The most recent of which is a report published at the UN Human Rights Council[1], but also the case filed at the World Court by South Africa in December with addenda added in March[2]. The evidence for this claim is both public, overwhelming, and has been filed at the world’s highest court.

All that said, I actually didn’t make the claim here—though I have elsewhere—I merely said we should be open to the possibility that this is the case.

1: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_v._Israel_(Genoci...

[goatlover]

I'm aware of all that, but I don't trust those organizations to be objective as there's a lot of geopolitics at play. South Africa's ruling party is friendly with Russia, for one thing. Then you have Iran's influence, and most of the Arab world has always been against Israel as a nation. Plus all the opposition to the west's influence in the region. There's a lot of proxy stuff going on.

But more than anything, I can just look at the conflict itself and there's no genocide going on. It's war in a dense urban area where Hamas hides among the population.