In war, truth is the first casualty, they say. With ever more powerful AI systems in play, it’s goodbye to accountability. This exclusive report by The Washington Post reveals how the Israeli military uses AI to identify people to target. What used to be painstaking human intelligence work is now left to artificial intelligence – that works way faster, delivers way more potential targets, with a way higher uncertainty. So it comes down to human oversight of those systems. «In the beginning of the war, they cut the work in half — which is okay, because it’s war. The problem was that then they sometimes cut all the work.»

From Weekly Filet #510, in January 2025.