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by ArtRichards 587 days ago
Reminds me of this: ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...
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I think you are talking about Lavender: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245 (7 months ago, 1418 points; 1601 comments)
>‘The machine did it coldly’

I'm not so sure, with the technology they're "shooting for".

I thought this said it all:

>They can differentiate between friendly, civilian and enemy, decide to engage or alert based on target type, and even vary their effects.

Obviouly they're only going to be designing, building, and deploying "nice bombs".