That being said, these times of crisis after crisis do indeed serve as a catalyst for more people to “wake up” and see through the propaganda that blinds the masses. After all, the loudest deceptions provide the greatest evolutionary potential.
This is why we here at The Pulse have always said that technological advancement could be great if humanity were to operate from a place of peace, love, cooperation and service to others. It’s not the technology that’s the real problem, it’s us.
Modern human history is full of examples where advancements in science and engineering were used to build weapons and strengthen the global military industrial complex instead of serving humanity and nature.
It’s unfortunate, but our technological development is not moving us forward, it’s moving us backwards.
The latest example comes from the Israeli/Palestine conflict. After the attack by Hamas on October 7, which killed approximately 1,500 innocent civilians, Israel has responded by killing more than 20,000 innocent civilians and bombing generational homes, hospitals, public buildings and more. These deaths have in part come as a result of an Israeli AI target-creation platform called Habsora (the Gospel), and the death toll continues to rise.
The Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, an online, nonprofit magazine run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists, explains:
“The Israeli army’s expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before, appear to have contributed to the destructive nature of the initial stages of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals. These factors, as described by current and former Israeli intelligence members, have likely played a role in producing what has been one of the deadliest military campaigns against Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948.”
It’s hard to get concrete information on Habsora because it’s been classified by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), but a short statement on the IDF website claimed it was using an AI-based system called Habsora in the war against Hamas to “produce targets at a fast pace.”
Multiple sources familiar with the IDF’s targeting processes confirmed the existence of the Gospel to +972, saying it had been used to produce automated recommendations for attacking targets such as the private homes of individuals
Aviv Kochavi, who served as the head of the IDF until January, has said the target division is “powered by AI capabilities” and includes hundreds of officers and soldiers. In an interview published before the war, he said it was “a machine that produces vast amounts of data more effectively than any human and translates it into targets for attack”.
According to Kochavi, “once this machine was activated” in Israel’s 11-day war with Hamas in May 2021 it generated 100 targets a day. Just imagine what it’s doing now as we witness genocide taking place in Palestine.
A former senior Israeli military source told the Guardian that operatives use a “very accurate” measurement of the rate of civilians evacuating a building shortly before a strike. “We use an algorithm to evaluate how many civilians are remaining. It gives us a green, yellow, red, like a traffic signal.”
An Israeli AI target-creation platform called Habsora (the Gospel) is picking targets in Gaza.