Comment by jijji
2 years ago
that would explain the news today of how Israel killed seven aid workers in Gaza [0]
[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-we-know-so-fa...
2 years ago
that would explain the news today of how Israel killed seven aid workers in Gaza [0]
[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-we-know-so-fa...
Shades of https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-i....
> It is also because Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.
> Counterterrorism officials insist this approach is one of simple logic: people in an area of known terrorist activity, or found with a top Qaeda operative, are probably up to no good. “Al Qaeda is an insular, paranoid organization — innocent neighbors don’t hitchhike rides in the back of trucks headed for the border with guns and bombs,” said one official, who requested anonymity to speak about what is still a classified program.
In the case of Al Qaeda, that might actually have been true? I don't think you can really compare Hamas to Al Qaeda; almost everything meaningful is different.
> In the case of Al Qaeda, that might actually have been true?
Very clearly not, as admitted by the man himself. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/obama-says-u-s-drone-stri...
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They didn't want to kill the aid workers, but the evil AI made them do it.
And they would have lived too, if it weren’t for that pesky AI!!
here's another story today from France24 about the over-reliance on AI driven targetting may have been responsible for the airstrike on April 1st 2024 that killed seven aid workers in Gaza [0]
[0] https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240403-gaza-aid-wo...