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Genocide in the 4th industrial revolution - How the US is using 'Israel' to test its AI warfare

  • Julia Kassem Julia Kassem
  • Source: Al Mayadeen English
  • 23 Apr 2024 15:18
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The West turns a blind eye to "Israel’s" brutal application of its weapons testing – from ligament tearing to leg-crippling butterfly bullets in 2018 and skin-burning white phosphorus.

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    Genocide in the 4th industrial revolution - How the US is using 'Israel' to test its AI warfare

In February 2023, the REAIM conference was assembled in the Netherlands to discuss responsible and ethical uses of AI in warfare. Months later, in September 2023, participating nations signed the Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy. "Israel", despite aspiring to become a pioneer and exporter of AI technology worldwide, did not sign the declaration. 

  • Genocide in the 4th industrial revolution - How the US is using 'Israel' to test its AI warfare
    Endorsing states to the US “Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy”

The Fourth Industrial Revolution had to continue the Western hegemonic tradition of imposing its system by force over the Middle East, where Blackrock replaced Haliburton as the iconic vessel of sustaining US economic domination over the region. While manifesting as a war of ideas, slipping the ideological consensus of deindustrialization and decentralization through EU and US-sponsored NGOs, the US again relied on a very important arm engineering its aspired unipolar global technocracy, the Atlanticist test-lab that is "Israel", testing Washington's consensus of subjugation by force, surveillance, imprisonment, and data harvesting - on the Palestinian population.

Of course, the West turns a blind eye to "Israel’s" brutal application of its weapons testing – from ligament tearing, leg crippling butterfly bullets in 2018 to skin-burning white phosphorus.

"Israel’s" latest genocide – under "Operation Swords of Iron," launched in the aftermath of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood – is a siege entirely situated in the 4th industrial revolution, cheered on by Western regimes who depend on its success not only to eliminate resistance but to be able to perfect and expand its grip on the data-harvesting, AI-engineered, “knowledge”-economy consensus of capital. The Biden regime not only turns a blind eye to "Israel’s" genocide, but it is fully in step with it, with Tel Aviv exercising the Biden administration’s application of former Google CEO Eric Schmitt’s vision for an AI regime to policing and warfare.

The US began implementing advanced forms of AI technology into warfare with Project Maven in 2017, 6 years before the latest AI-driven genocide of Gaza. Backers of the project were then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, chair of the “defense innovation.” A 2020 New York Times piece even described Schmidt as the “liaison between Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex.” Alongside Schmidt in backing Project Maven was Peter Thiel. Thiel is the chairman of Palantir Technologies who flew to "Israel" in January of this year to continue to provide intelligence technology in Tel Aviv’s siege, assault, and genocide on Gaza. Theil, in addition to running a venture capital fund, profited greatly off of the post-9/11 security hysteria to launch Palantir in 2003, which he described as a terrorism-detection tool as Paypal was a money fraud detection tool. "Israel" has become increasingly dependent on Palantir for its military big-data analytics during its brutal siege on Gaza, opting for the US tech giant over its own similar firms. This points to how badly damaged Israeli internal security was in line with a massive increase in dependency on Washington to take over and fill in the gaps in Israeli military and security apparatuses lost post-October 7.

Since 2017, the development of AI as a pioneering aspect of US industrial warfare only took off further, though the Maven software, tested by the US 18th Airborne Corps in North Carolina, was noted to detect its targets with an error-prone accuracy rate of around 60% in identifying a tank - which drops down to 30% in worse weather conditions. 

Israeli-deployed Gospel and the recently-revealed Lavender systems represent the battle testing of US-pioneered AI warfare used by "Israel’s" elite 8200 intelligence unit - who itself continues to struggle with the collapse of its security, most recently having a top official’s identity leaked on UK paper. The soldier, identified as “Brigadier Y.S.,” published a 2021 book titled “The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human & Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World.”

"Israel" would first battle test its AI-powered carnage in May 2021 with the Israeli bombing campaign “Guardian of the Walls.” This marked the first time that Tel Aviv publicly deployed AI technology with Palestinians in the world’s largest open-air prison as its experimental subjects. In 2023, an IOF officer of “Israel’s” elite 8200 intelligence unit bragged about using AI to find and snuff out Hamas commanders in Gaza, gloating that the “system does in seconds what hundreds of researchers would take weeks to do.” 

Rather than a mark of technological genius and innovation, as "Israel" positions itself as the world’s “tech hub", its reliance on AI technology marked a significant step in deploying military technology in warfare where the ends justify means, and expediency must counteract rapidly declining labor intensive potential. "Israel’s" rapid reliance on AI technology doesn’t demonstrate innovative prowess as it is a crutch to fill in the gaps for a massively absent skilled - and willed - fighting force. The ‘TikTok Army’ attempted to compensate for its hodgepodge of forced conscripts, who clearly have no will to fight - with just pushes of a button. 

Similar to how the US ushered in the 4th industrial revolution to accelerate production output and surplus value at the expense of labor, the Israeli entity is expediting these aims onto the battlefield in the absence of a real fighting force. 

As the genocide in Gaza entered its third week, with Lavender systems marking down over 37,000 homes of Palestinian Resistance fighters, the White House issued an Executive Order on “AI security and safety.”

While the Executive Order didn’t mention anything related to warfare, just over 11 days later, the US issued a declaration on “Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy” aiming to build an internationally agreed framework on responsible use of AI in the military domain. As of February 2024, 51 states are members - "Israel" not included.

‘Eugenics + Technology’ 

The widely circulated +972 piece, which disclosed and exposed the Lavender AI system, months after more coverage of Israel’s use of the “Gospel” system became more widely known. 

Yet Israel’s tools of genocide, unlike the rash, uncalculated, and indiscriminate picture drawn by the +972 investigation, represented an intentional effect to inflict deliberate eugenics-fueled genocide. By wiping out entire bloodlines based on locations marked by the Lavender system to house “Hamas targets” - Israel attempts to wipe out not only entire lineages of what it considers to be “potential and future fighters,” but artists, writers, academics, and the health care system and health care workers. The Israeli regime’s repeated statements spelling out their intent to eliminate not just “literal” bloodlines, but ideological, intellectual, and skill-based ones as well.

As the US seeks to have artificial intelligence comprise over 90% of internet content by the next year, pioneering on deep fake technology and expanding its weaponization of social media and Google as auxiliary police apparatuses, Israel, having found itself without a fighting force, an army of a well-equipped air force with no ground game or fighters, seeks to perfect the use of Artificial intelligence in warfare this time around. In May 2021, Israel advertised fighting of its first “AI war” expanded in 2023’s “Swords of Iron” when Israel applied its target-generation platform “the Gospel”, to massively expand the scope of killings. The platform produced not only the surgical killing of Palestinian resistance members and officials, but the entire wiping out of bloodlines, reproducing the death-by-association pattering of NSO’s Pegasus spyware to ensure Palestine was not just wiped out of its fighters and future fighters, but also governance, systems of education, documentation, record-keeping, and hospital systems. In its place, the West will construct its technocratic system of rule, engineered by Google, under Biden’s framework of comprador governance led by the Palestinian Authority for show.

The so-called Jewish state draws upon textual justification for the corresponding atrocities, from baby-killing ordinances of IOF spiritual leaders Rafael Eliyahu Mali or Rabbi Yaron Reuven – to Netanyahu’s comparison of Gaza as “Amalek,” but the real scriptural logic of Israel’s plan comes from utilitarian liberalism, where in the tradition of John Stuart Mill, the ends alone justify the means. The axiomatic Western “children of light” is always justified in its necessary conquer of the inherent “children of darkness.”

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect Al Mayadeen’s editorial stance.
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