The UN chief is concerned about reports that Israel is using artificial intelligence to identify targets

   "Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, expressed serious concern on Friday over reports that Israel is using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify targets in the Gaza Strip.

 

    

 

     A report in Israel's +972 magazine said the country used AI to identify targets in the Gaza Strip, in some cases with just 20 seconds of human supervision in the process.

 

    

 

     Guterres said he was "deeply concerned by reports that the Israeli military's bombing campaign is using artificial intelligence as a means of identifying targets, particularly in densely populated residential areas, resulting in large civilian casualties."

 

    

 

     "No part of life-and-death decisions that affect entire families should be entrusted to the cold calculation of robots," he said.

 

    

 

     +972 reports that "the Israeli military, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a lenient policy of casualties, has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination."

 

    

 

     Israel made a rare admission of guilt on Friday, saying the Gaza incident in which seven aid workers were killed was the result of a series of errors and violations of rules, saying it mistakenly believed it was "targeting armed Hamas fighters"."