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I work on a question: "How to subdue people?"
I discuss sociology of reputation and history of dominations.
(She/her; studied in Nantes; lives in Marseille, France.)
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@annajobin @milamiceli @ginahelfrich @dataGovernance @data @ai @israel @ethics @military

War after war, government and society have demanded more military "targets". [More damages but not conflict resolution.]
Accordingly the army and the "intelligenge" services augmented their data production, thus their target creations, resulting in much more deaths.
Jerusalem-based Yuval Abraham scooped the mainstream media: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/
The army had triggered the first war in 2021. I am gathering information from the in that thread: https://techhub.social/@estelle/111505251994013079

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The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:

  1. An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”

  2. An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:

"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"

  1. "The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."

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In 2019, the Israeli army created a special unit to create targets with the help of generative AI. Its objective: volume, volume, volume.
The effects on civilians (harm, suffering, death) are not a priority: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

@dataGovernance @data #lawful #compliance #governance #anthropology #tech #techCulture #engineering #engineers #ethics @ethics #sociology @sociology
#bias #AI #AITech #aiEthics #generativeAI #chatBots @ai @psychology @socialpsych #StochasticParrots

estelle,
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In 2019, the Israeli army created a special unit to create targets with the help of generative AI. Its objective: volume, volume, volume.
The effects on civilians (harm, suffering, death) are not a priority: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

#lawful #compliance #governance #anthropology #tech #techCulture #engineering #engineers #ethics @ethics #sociology @sociology
#bias #AI #AITech #aiEthics #generativeAI #chatBots @ai @psychology @socialpsych #StochasticParrots @dataGovernance @data

estelle,
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In 2019, the Israeli army created a special unit to create targets with the help of generative AI. Its objective: volume, volume, volume.
The effects on civilians (harm, suffering, death) are not a priority: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

#lawful #compliance #governance #anthropology #tech #techCulture #engineering #engineers #ethics @ethics #sociology @sociology #bias #AI #AITech #aiEthics #generativeAI #chatBots @ai @psychology @socialpsych #StochasticParrots @dataGovernance @data

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Former IDF chief of staff Aviv Kochavi: “once this machine was activated [in Israel’s 11-day war with Hamas in May 2021] it generated 100 targets a day. To put that into perspective, in the past we would produce 50 targets in Gaza per year. Now, this machine produces 100 targets a single day, with 50% of them being attacked.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/ry0uzlhu3

estelle,
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estimates in advance the number of innocents killed for each "generated" bombing target:

"Five different sources confirmed that the number of civilians who may be killed in attacks on private residences is known in advance to Israeli intelligence, and appears clearly in the target file under the category of “collateral damage.”

According to these sources, there are degrees of collateral damage, according to which the army determines whether it is possible to attack a target inside a private residence. “When the general directive becomes ‘Collateral Damage 5,’ that means we are authorized to strike all targets that will kill five or less civilians — we can act on all target files that are five or less,” said one of the sources."

Report: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

estelle,
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‘Mass assassination factory’

“We prepare the targets automatically and work according to a checklist,” a source who previously worked in the Target Division told +972/Local Call. “It really is like a factory. We work quickly and there is no time to delve deep into the target. The view is that we are judged according to how many targets we manage to generate.”

A separate source told the publication that the Habsora AI had allowed the IDF to run a “mass assassination factory” in which the “emphasis is on quantity and not on quality”. A human eye, they said, “will go over the targets before each attack, but it need not spend a lot of time on them”.

Report: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

@ethics @ai @dataGovernance @data

estelle,
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A person who took part in previous Israeli offensives in Gaza said:
“If they would tell the whole world that the [Islamic Jihad] offices on the 10th floor are not important as a target, but that its existence is a justification to bring down the entire high-rise with the aim of pressuring civilian families who live in it in order to put pressure on terrorist organizations, this would itself be seen as terrorism. So they do not say it.”

+972 and Local Call investigated: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

(to be continued)

estelle,
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The first AI war was in May 2021.

stands for the Intelligence Division of the Israel army. Here is some praise of technology usage:

May 2021 "is the first time that the intelligence services have played such a transformative role at the tactical level.

This is the result of a strategic shift made by the IDI [in] recent years. Revisiting its role in military operations, it established a comprehensive, “one-stop-shop” intelligence war machine, gathering all relevant players in intelligence planning and direction, collection, processing and exploitation, analysis and production, and dissemination process (PCPAD)".

Avi Kalo: https://www.frost.com/frost-perspectives/ai-enhanced-military-intelligence-warfare-precedent-lessons-from-idfs-operation-guardian-of-the-walls/

(to be continued) 🧶

@ethics

estelle,
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"The deployment of AI applications and Big Data Analytics across all domains during the campaign gave the IDF a genuine military edge on the battlefield over its historical adversary Hamas.

"Firstly, AI enhanced and speeded up the scale, capacity, and lethality of targeting processes during real-time engagements, with IAF pilots attacking targets on the ground, based on AI outputs. […]

"Secondly, for the first time ever, […] AI-enabled platforms armed target recognition systems with probability-based forecasts of enemy behavior, and provided identification support on the ground. ML was also leveraged to learn, track, and discover targets from the data obtained. In summary, the IDF successfully used AI-oriented automatic target recognition and acquisition (ATR). […]

"Last, but not least, the campaign […] resulted in an exponential increase in the volume of on ground, battlefield information to complement Crowd-sourced Intelligence (CROSINT) analytics."

@dataGovernance @data @ai

estelle,
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Behind any aircraft that takes off for an attack, there are thousands of soldiers, men and women, who make the information accessible to the pilot. "They produce the targets and make the targets accessible. To set a target, it’s a process with lots of factors that need to be approved. The achievement, the collateral damage and the level of accuracy. For that, you have to interconnect intelligence, (weapon) fire, C4I [an integrated military communications system, including the interaction of troops, intelligence and communication equipment] and more," said Nati Cohen, currently a reservist in the Exercises Division of the C4I Division of the army.

Published in 2021 in a security mag: https://israeldefense.co.il/en/node/50155 @military

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"The unit is engaged in the same kind of AI work that the world’s biggest tech companies, like Google, Facebook and China’s Baidu are doing in a race to apply machine learning to such functions as self-driving cars, analysis of salespeople’s telephone pitches and cybersecurity — or to fight Israel’s next war more intelligently."

“I’ve always loved algorithms. I was already involved with them in high school and worked in the field. When I [was] drafted I wanted to combine the technology with a combat,” Maj. Sefi Cohen, 34, recalls.

The unit’s only female member left recently. so for the moment it’s an all-male team. Cohen says: “Everyone who’s here is the tops.”

"Tiny IDF Unit Is Brains Behind Israeli Army Artificial Intelligence", Haaretz, 2017: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2017-08-15/ty-article/tiny-idf-unit-is-brains-behind-israeli-army-artificial-intelligence/0000017f-e35b-d7b2-a77f-e35fc8f40000

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Lt.-Col. Nurit Cohen Inger has overseen at the Israeli ’s Computer Service Directorate. She showed her enthusiasm on to JNS.org in 2017:

“The top level in this field of big data is to have a system that makes recommendations on what to do, based on the data. We are there.”

In theory, this could figure out where to direct strikes, to achieve maximum damage.

Inger said AI “can influence every step and small decision in a conflict, and the entire conflict itself.”

“For this system to work, it has to function at a very high level,” she added. “AI is a machine that has the intelligence characteristics of a person—in this case, by giving recommendations.”

Human commanders will still make the final decisions, Inger said, but they will receive “very precise and relevant recommendations. This is happening, and it will happen much more.”

https://www.jns.org/artificial-intelligence-shaping-the-idf-in-ways-never-imagined-2/ @dataGovernance @data @ai @israel @ethics @military @idf

estelle,
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"In this episode we talked with Sefi Cohen, head of Data Science squad in the IDF. He tells us about the different projects they're doing and how he started a Data Science team with very little knowledge of Machine Learning and Data Science techniques, how he chose the right people for this team and how they all learned the craft together."

https://podtail.com/en/podcast/unsupervised/what-do-data-scientists-do-in-the-army-with-sefi-c/ @dataGovernance @data @ai @israel @ethics @military @idf @terrorism

estelle,
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"In this episode we talked with Sefi Cohen, head of Data Science squad in the IDF. He tells us about the different projects they're doing and how he started a Data Science team with very little knowledge of Machine Learning and Data Science techniques, how he chose the right people for this team and how they all learned the craft together."

(December 2017) https://podtail.com/en/podcast/unsupervised/what-do-data-scientists-do-in-the-army-with-sefi-c/ @dataGovernance @data @ai @israel @ethics @military @idf @terrorism

estelle, to ethics
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How healthcare became official and a luxury – something that the rich elite had recourse to, and which everyone else had to do without: https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/on-medieval-healthcare-and-american-barbarism/

#midwives #monks #medieval #healthcare #Janega @DrEleanorJanega #history #sociology @ethics @sociology @socialpsych #medicine #physicians #pandemic #ModernTimes #modernity #modern #MiddleAges #Europe

estelle, to sociology
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"Class relations within party organizations shape and set clear limits on the involvement of working-class activists."

A review of Raphaël Challier's book, "Simple militants. How political parties demobilise the working classes":
https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-politix-2022-1-page-235.htm

@sociology

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"Duterte said: you can kill legally because they might fight back. They will fight back. And that was the loop of the narrative. They are drug addicts; therefore, they are armed. Because they are drug addicts, they will fight back. And, if they fight back, they must die."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-journalist-exposes-the-philippines-extralegal-killings

@socialpsych

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"What effect does de-humanizing language have?"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CybFoxTIzPO/
@ethics @sociology @psychology

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University teachers suspended, employees sacked: in , the authorities punish the slightest expression of support for Palestine on social media. In the course of a week, at least 170 people have been arrested for their online activities.
https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-war-political-persecution/

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"Successive Israeli governments convinced the world that its policies toward Gaza were justified by security, something for which Israel will not have difficulty garnering sympathy and understanding for years to come. But the main objectives of the disengagement, the siege, and the policy of separation were purely political: to ensure the survival of a regime of apartheid. That was never a secret."
https://www.972mag.com/gaza-broken-paradigm-biden-complicit/

estelle,
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@lizstl13
Welcome Elizabeth!
The UN created Israel. The international community supports Israel’s right to exist.
There is no debate with organisations that do not.
There is no lack of information either.

https://mstdn.social/@breton/109887498250839879

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@lizstl13

Tamir Sorek just wrote on FB:
"Sometimes I am surprised to find in US media a simple, sane, and human explanation for the dynamics in Palestine/Israel.
Hussein Ibish, on CBS: "structures of violence are hardwired into any relationship defined by the control of one people by another in a contest for land and power."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mideast-scholar-hussein-ibish-israelis-and-palestinians-must-stop-dehumanizing-each-other/

estelle,
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"Israeli academia joins the crackdown on dissent" https://www.972mag.com/israeli-academia-crackdown-palestinian-students/

@israel @ethics


estelle,
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"Israeli academia joins the crackdown on dissent" https://www.972mag.com/israeli-academia-crackdown-palestinian-students/

@israel @ethics

estelle, to ethics
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"The amount of work your work and life wants of you will always and forever exceed the amount you can do.
You cannot fight this.
It is also a gift.
Once you accept (or re-accept) that there is too much, it becomes easier to turn some things away. You may still feel grief or loss at the things you cannot do. You may feel guilt, especially if an institution or person benefits from you feeling that way. But accepting that you must leave some things undone shifts the problem from one of being not enough to one of being in a position to make choices. And even when those choices are coupled to difficult or prickly constraints, they are still choices."

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/too-much-and-not-enough/ by Mandy Brown

@ethics @psychology

estelle, to ethics
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Dr Eleanor : "I mean without a forever war against anyone you can find, how will you keep a society going?"
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https://going-medieval.com/2019/07/26/on-colonialism-imperialism-and-ignoring-medieval-history/ @ethics

estelle, to ethics
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Julie #Billaud: Administrative techniques devised to engage parties to a conflict "are changing as a result of external sources of pressure for ‘evidence-based programming’, turning personalised case-based monitoring into a new form of ‘audit culture’ based on statistical evidence. Paradoxically, relying on numbers to realise the utopia of ‘humanising war’ makes the very ‘humans’ who are supposed to benefit from it disappear from view."
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339326884_Masters_of_disorder_rituals_of_communication_and_monitoring_at_the_International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross @ethics @sociology #RedCross #conflict #bureaucracy #humanitarian #quantification #technocracy #quantitative

estelle, to sociology
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Welcome @Nita_Alexander to the Fediverse!
You will feel welcome here! 💜

You may post an with and saying if you are at John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio or at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia 🙂

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is a philosophical position or view that is the source of knowledge.

Vernon J. wrote that rationalism is defined as a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of is not sensory but intellectual and deductive."
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@psychology

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, coined by Timnit Gebru and Émile Torres, stands for , , Singularitarianism, Cosmism, , Effective Altruism, and . For a breakdown of each term, check out this article https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/
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