Israeli soldiers killed a Polish volunteer of the U.S. NGO planet Central Kitchen. Damian Sobol helped starving Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Was this shocking attack on the humanitarian convoy carried out utilizing artificial intelligence – AI? A fewer reflections on "comfortable killing".
On April 3, 2024, The Guardian published a text entitled "The device made it cold: Israel utilized artificial intelligence to identify Hamas' 37,000 targets" on the usage of the Lavender strategy by the Israel Defence Forces in the Gaza Strip. The device utilized artificial intelligence algorithms and a database listing over 37,000 people who could be a possible threat to Israel, due to their alleged connections with Hamas. Life and death decisions were made by the Lavender system, and soldiers only spent 20 seconds authorising the bombing. As a result, tens of thousands of civilians were in mortal danger.
This brutal digitisation of the killing process, where people are brought into the data set, poses a threat to humanity and our civilisation.
It is noteworthy that Israel is the world's largest exporter of military drones. And by 2035 these machines will be 95% of the air force.
The killing of a Pole in the Gaza Strip reminded me that "there is simply a question of existential nature to answer about whether our civilisation in the spirit of humanitarianism is ready to accept the robotization of the process of depriving people." Kaja Kowalczewska writes about this in her work "Dead systems with progressive autonomy – global law analysis".
Comfortable Killing
"The Playstation mentality surrounding the drone killings is equally worrying. Young military, raised on video games, present they kill real people remotely, utilizing a joist. How will this generation of warriors, distanced from the human consequences of their actions, appreciate the right to life? How will the commanders and policy makers defy the seemingly undamaged nature of drone killings? Would killing be more attractive than capture? Will intelligence standards justify killing deteriorate? Will the number of acceptable deaths of innocent civilians increase?" “The Killer Above the Law” in "The Guardian". The context of an article published in 2010 is The war in Afghanistan during which the United States utilized drones to kill peopleAnd, including civilians.
The above quote is the motto for the study "Comfortable Killing: Armed drones and Playstation Mentality" developed by The Fellowship of Reconcilation. Where did you get the title? I urge you see photo of a area at the U.S. Army drone control center in fresh Mexico state.
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Fourteen years have passed – comfortable killing becomes more comfortable. Today, thanks to artificial intelligence and the failure of human intelligence.
It has been nearly 80 years since the end of planet War II – ‘modernity and destruction’ They came to the Gaza Strip.
Today, the demolition of the Palestinian people reveals the second face of our modern society. We are looking at the final solution to the Palestinian issue and we are silent.
The killer robots are already here.
"The imagination of a planet in which life and death decisions will be made by machines not under direct human control must be considered seriously," writes the author of the book "Drone War. Military usage of unmanned aircraft’.
How do specified machines work? I urge you watch The movie "Hardhead", which is 1 of episodes of the series "Black Mirror". Its creators emphasize that “they scare robots Boston Dynamics. It's not just that they truly exist, they're causing us a real sense of danger. The reptile part of the brain perceives them as terrible due to the fact that they are the first serious threat to human civilization.”
Killer robots resembling Hardhead are here. They assist Israeli soldiers in searching underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip. Machines,
, provides the American company Ghost Robotics.
Acceptance for assassin robots will be created by civilian drone applications. The Amazon corp is already delivering message in 2 US states today. This year a akin service is expected to run in the UK and Italy. Let me remind you that this is the case. A Amazon that threatens democracy, as stated by the U.S. Parliamentary Competition Subcommittee investigating GAFAM monopoly (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft).
"In the future, there will be no request for control operators, as drone software will have the scope of autonomy so large that it will choose its goals, routes, flights, ways of engagement. Moreover, it most likely already exists, and its application is waiting for the decisions of governments and armies," writes Błażej Kolanski in his book "What do drones want? From visual attraction to power-seeking.” The author wrote this in 2015. It's been 8 years. present I'm certain blind moles They can't wait to release this software from Pandora's Box.
Stop Killer Robots
The civilian Affairs Institute is simply a associate of the global coalition Stop Killer Robots. We are working for a planet that rejects the automation of killing and alternatively promotes the rule of human and ethical control over fresh technologies, in peculiar weapons systems utilizing artificial intelligence. We do not agree that machines make their own decisions about who to kill.
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Join us!The halt Killer Robots run was set up in April 2013 by a group of NGOs afraid about the evidence of increased autonomy of weapon systems. presently halt Killer Robots is simply a coalition of over 230 social organizations and academic partners operating in 70 countries. Institute of civilian Affairs is the only Polish organisation belonging to the coalition.
We request to ban machines that mark people, reducing us to objects and data sets. We request governments around the planet to start negotiations on new global law on autonomous weapons.
Autonomous weapons disagree from conventional weapons by the fact that utilizing them can kill people without human participation. LAWS is another word for autonomous weapons. It is distinguished from conventional weapons by the anticipation of carrying out an attack without a human operator.
One of the results of coalition action is First UN Resolution on Autonomous Weapons.
In March this year we submitted an open letter to the Ministry of abroad Affairs, calling for Poland to be active in actions aimed at banning lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS).
Are the decision-makers in our country curious in the demands of the halt Killer Robot coalition? Nope. For eleven years no organization or government squad has been willing to talk about machines killing people without asking people.
Remember! Technology should never replace human judgement and ethics. It is time to take concrete steps against LAWS. We must guarantee that in the future no decisions about killing people will be made without control and, most importantly, human responsibility.
Support us to act before it is besides late.
Tracks into the rabbit hole:
- Kowalczewska K., Kowalski J. (ed.), Battle drone systems. Problem analysis and civilian society response, Warsaw, student technological Publishing House, 2015.
- Kopić R., Wasiuta O., Wójtowicz T., The drone war. Military usage of unmanned aircraft, Kraków, technological Publishing home of Pedagogical University, 2021.
- Nahirny R., Kil A., Zamorska M. (ed.), What do the drones want? From Visual Attraction to the View of Power, Gdansk, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, 2017.
