#aiwarfare — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aiwarfare, aggregated by home.social.
-
The AI War Machine: Inside Unit 8200, Mass Surveillance & The "Lavender" Algorithm
#AIWarfare #Unit8200 #MilitaryAI #Geopolitics #CyberSecurity #MassSurveillance #LavenderAI #TechNews
-
The AI War Machine: Inside Unit 8200, Mass Surveillance & The "Lavender" Algorithm
#AIWarfare #Unit8200 #MilitaryAI #Geopolitics #CyberSecurity #MassSurveillance #LavenderAI #TechNews
-
"We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed and scale of military assaults in a manner that creates significant new risks for accountability in conflict and risks facilitating violations of international criminal, human rights, and humanitarian law.
We therefore call for tech companies and states to halt the provision of AI systems for use in the military kill chain and to take all steps to ensure that other AI systems they provide do not cause or contribute to violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL). This includes the use of AI decision-support systems, including target generation systems, remote biometric surveillance, and multimodal AI models, including large language models (LLMs). AI-accelerated warfare is rapidly becoming a means of rubber-stamping killing at speed and at scale, and currently no technical or procedural fixes can effectively prevent the lethal and devastating consequences that stem from the fundamental challenges it poses to international law."
https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/joint-statement-on-ai-in-warfare/
#AI #AIWarfare #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw
-
"We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed and scale of military assaults in a manner that creates significant new risks for accountability in conflict and risks facilitating violations of international criminal, human rights, and humanitarian law.
We therefore call for tech companies and states to halt the provision of AI systems for use in the military kill chain and to take all steps to ensure that other AI systems they provide do not cause or contribute to violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL). This includes the use of AI decision-support systems, including target generation systems, remote biometric surveillance, and multimodal AI models, including large language models (LLMs). AI-accelerated warfare is rapidly becoming a means of rubber-stamping killing at speed and at scale, and currently no technical or procedural fixes can effectively prevent the lethal and devastating consequences that stem from the fundamental challenges it poses to international law."
https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/joint-statement-on-ai-in-warfare/
#AI #AIWarfare #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw
-
Trump pushes open source AI deeper into the US military
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/trump-open-source-ai-military/
-
"Nearly a decade later, militaries haven’t yet developed fully autonomous lethal weapons. But these systems sit squarely in the center of a recent high-stakes battle between the US government and AI startup Anthropic. Anthropic is seeking to preserve two “red lines”: bans on domestic mass surveillance and on weapons that can identify, track, and kill targets with zero human involvement. Since the start of the year, it’s emerged as the only military AI contractor to place meaningful limits on what experts call one of the final frontiers of AI warfare.
But amid shifting alliances, lawsuits, and melodrama, it’s easy to lose sight of the larger context — that AI is, and long has been, deeply embedded in the military. Seventy years ago, a summer meeting between scientists in New Hampshire made the Department of Defense sit up and take notice of AI’s potential for war. Since then, its influence has grown exponentially every decade. In recent years in particular, AI has enabled more and faster killings than ever before.
Even Anthropic seems to think its red lines won’t hold for long. After all, history has proven otherwise.
The US military has backed AI development for decades, and in turn, AI has transformed warfare. In the 2000s, the technology became capable of parsing unprecedented amounts of data collected worldwide, creating a surveillance revolution. And the late 2010s saw the development of advanced facial recognition and other sophisticated machine vision systems."
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/937028/military-ai-warfare-red-lines
-
"Nearly a decade later, militaries haven’t yet developed fully autonomous lethal weapons. But these systems sit squarely in the center of a recent high-stakes battle between the US government and AI startup Anthropic. Anthropic is seeking to preserve two “red lines”: bans on domestic mass surveillance and on weapons that can identify, track, and kill targets with zero human involvement. Since the start of the year, it’s emerged as the only military AI contractor to place meaningful limits on what experts call one of the final frontiers of AI warfare.
But amid shifting alliances, lawsuits, and melodrama, it’s easy to lose sight of the larger context — that AI is, and long has been, deeply embedded in the military. Seventy years ago, a summer meeting between scientists in New Hampshire made the Department of Defense sit up and take notice of AI’s potential for war. Since then, its influence has grown exponentially every decade. In recent years in particular, AI has enabled more and faster killings than ever before.
Even Anthropic seems to think its red lines won’t hold for long. After all, history has proven otherwise.
The US military has backed AI development for decades, and in turn, AI has transformed warfare. In the 2000s, the technology became capable of parsing unprecedented amounts of data collected worldwide, creating a surveillance revolution. And the late 2010s saw the development of advanced facial recognition and other sophisticated machine vision systems."
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/937028/military-ai-warfare-red-lines
-
China Advances Underwater and Robotic Warfare Tech
China showed new underwater minelaying drones and AI robot dogs on 5 October 2026. Learn how these military robots change naval and ground warfare plans.
#chinamilitary, #navaldrones, #robotdogs, #defenseexpo, #aiwarfare
https://newsletter.tf/china-new-underwater-drones-robot-dogs-2026/
-
China has introduced new underwater drones that can dive 3,000 meters deep. This is a big change from their older, less advanced underwater systems.
#chinamilitary, #navaldrones, #robotdogs, #defenseexpo, #aiwarfare
https://newsletter.tf/china-new-underwater-drones-robot-dogs-2026/ -
#israel #lebanon : #militaryinvasion / #idf / #aiwarfare / #targetedkillings / #lavender / #reportage
„The Israeli military has used a targeting system powered by artificial intelligence to launch what it says are attacks on #Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The system fuses data from various sources, including smartphones, security and traffic cameras, Wi-Fi signals, drones and social media.
Experts warn that AI-powered systems could misidentify civilians.“
-
US vs. China: The AI Model Exploitation War https://aiorbit.app/us-vs-china-the-ai-model-exploitation-war/ #AIWarfare
#ChinaAI
#IntellectualProperty
#TechCompetition -
Iran war shows how AI speeds up military ‘kill chains’. #AIrisks #AIwarfare #ArtificialintelligenceAI #ArtificialIntelligenceethics #Futureofwarfare #Iran #IsraelIranwar #Technology #USmilitary
https://iwpost.com/iran-war-shows-how-ai-speeds-up-military-kill-chains/?fsp_sid=7017 -
Iran war shows how AI speeds up military ‘kill chains’. #AIrisks #AIwarfare #ArtificialintelligenceAI #ArtificialIntelligenceethics #Futureofwarfare #Iran #IsraelIranwar #Technology #USmilitary
https://iwpost.com/iran-war-shows-how-ai-speeds-up-military-kill-chains/?fsp_sid=7017 -
Reassuring …
-
Reassuring …
-
"Keeping a human in the loop may not provide the safeguard people imagine, because the human cannot know the AI’s intention before it acts. Advanced AI systems do not simply execute instructions; they interpret them. If operators fail to define their objectives carefully enough—a highly likely scenario in high-pressure situations—the “black box” system could be doing exactly what it was told and still not acting as humans intended.
This “intention gap” between AI systems and human operators is precisely why we hesitate to deploy frontier black-box AI in civilian health care or air traffic control, and why its integration into the workplace remains fraught—yet we are rushing to deploy it on the battlefield.
To make matters worse, if one side in a conflict deploys fully autonomous weapons, which operate at machine speed and scale, the pressure to remain competitive would push the other side to rely on such weapons too. This means the use of increasingly autonomous—and opaque—AI decision-making in war is only likely to grow."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/
-
"Keeping a human in the loop may not provide the safeguard people imagine, because the human cannot know the AI’s intention before it acts. Advanced AI systems do not simply execute instructions; they interpret them. If operators fail to define their objectives carefully enough—a highly likely scenario in high-pressure situations—the “black box” system could be doing exactly what it was told and still not acting as humans intended.
This “intention gap” between AI systems and human operators is precisely why we hesitate to deploy frontier black-box AI in civilian health care or air traffic control, and why its integration into the workplace remains fraught—yet we are rushing to deploy it on the battlefield.
To make matters worse, if one side in a conflict deploys fully autonomous weapons, which operate at machine speed and scale, the pressure to remain competitive would push the other side to rely on such weapons too. This means the use of increasingly autonomous—and opaque—AI decision-making in war is only likely to grow."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/
-
AI shrinking the margin for nuclear error in South Asia https://www.byteseu.com/1944340/ #AIWarfare #Block2 #IndiaNukes #IndiaPakistanNuclearWar #IndiaPakistanWar #Nuclear #OperationSindoor #PakistanNukes #SouthAsia
-
"These developments point to a deeper structural reality, that the US national growth model is increasingly organised around a triangular system between private credit financing, AI infrastructure, and military demand. The financial and real economic fragility of which the private credit liquidity crisis is a symptom, is intersecting and converging with AI in structurally significant ways. While disrupting the software services universe, AI is absorbing large sums of capital for investments in chip production, data centres and related infrastructure (including in requirements such as land, energy sources, cooling systems, and computing capacity). A significant share of that investment is being funded with credit from private credit vehicles. It is now emerging that the hype around AI, driven by the surging demand for high-end chips produced by ‘market-favourite’ Nvidia and newer entrants like AMD, is now being questioned by the lack-lustre returns from deployment of AI by downstream businesses. While some firms do record revenue growth from AI use or deployment, the investment needed is proving to be difficult to justify for many others. So, the demand and revenue growth projections implicit in the rising valuations of AI firms themselves increasingly appear to be driven by hype rather than reasoned, evidence-backed judgements."
https://developingeconomics.org/2026/04/16/militarised-ai-private-credit-and-iran-war/
#USA #Iran #War #PrivateCredit #Finance #AI #BigTech #AIWarfare
-
"These developments point to a deeper structural reality, that the US national growth model is increasingly organised around a triangular system between private credit financing, AI infrastructure, and military demand. The financial and real economic fragility of which the private credit liquidity crisis is a symptom, is intersecting and converging with AI in structurally significant ways. While disrupting the software services universe, AI is absorbing large sums of capital for investments in chip production, data centres and related infrastructure (including in requirements such as land, energy sources, cooling systems, and computing capacity). A significant share of that investment is being funded with credit from private credit vehicles. It is now emerging that the hype around AI, driven by the surging demand for high-end chips produced by ‘market-favourite’ Nvidia and newer entrants like AMD, is now being questioned by the lack-lustre returns from deployment of AI by downstream businesses. While some firms do record revenue growth from AI use or deployment, the investment needed is proving to be difficult to justify for many others. So, the demand and revenue growth projections implicit in the rising valuations of AI firms themselves increasingly appear to be driven by hype rather than reasoned, evidence-backed judgements."
https://developingeconomics.org/2026/04/16/militarised-ai-private-credit-and-iran-war/
#USA #Iran #War #PrivateCredit #Finance #AI #BigTech #AIWarfare
-
We are closer than ever to living in the flash-forward scenes of the Terminator franchise. ... Hooray??? #ai #robots #tech #drones #cyberwarfare #robotics #aiwarfare #ukraine #russia #putin #zelenskyy #zelenskyy #orban #hungary #nato #nafo #shahed #science
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t5upnvitovbixvoic63xptlf/post/3mjfg5etq3c2b -
We are closer than ever to living in the flash-forward scenes of the Terminator franchise. ... Hooray??? #ai #robots #tech #drones #cyberwarfare #robotics #aiwarfare #ukraine #russia #putin #zelenskyy #zelenskyy #orban #hungary #nato #nafo #shahed #science
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t5upnvitovbixvoic63xptlf/post/3mjfg5etq3c2b -
Blaming AI error for the US attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh misses the point, argues Kevin Baker. This isn’t something better guardrails or algorithms could have stopped. The real fault lies with the people who decided to compress kill chains, build systems that generate thousands of targeting decisions each hour, and launch illegal wars 👇
#AIWarfare #KillChain #MilitaryAI
https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain -
The Algorithmic War: How the US-Iran Conflict Reshaping the Future of Warfare and Global Technology
The Software-Defined War: Why the 2026 Iran Conflict is a Warning to the World?The military engagement between Iran and the US-Israeli coalition from 2024 to early 2026 has done more than shift borders—it has shattered the traditional playbook of war. For the first time, we have witnessed an “AI-first” conflict where the “kill chain” is measured in seconds and the most valuable ammunition isn’t lead, but data.
Success in 2026 is no longer defined by who has the most soldiers, but by who owns the “Sovereign Stack”—the data, the energy, and the algorithm. As the military clock continues to accelerate, the world must decide if our legal and ethical frameworks can ever hope to catch up.
#US #Iran #Israel #AIWarfare #OperationEpicFury #LUCASDrone #FutureOfWar #Geopolitics #TechNews #GlobalSupplyChain #NationalSecurity #TechDecoupling
-
The Algorithmic War: How the US-Iran Conflict Reshaping the Future of Warfare and Global Technology
The Software-Defined War: Why the 2026 Iran Conflict is a Warning to the World?The military engagement between Iran and the US-Israeli coalition from 2024 to early 2026 has done more than shift borders—it has shattered the traditional playbook of war. For the first time, we have witnessed an “AI-first” conflict where the “kill chain” is measured in seconds and the most valuable ammunition isn’t lead, but data.
Success in 2026 is no longer defined by who has the most soldiers, but by who owns the “Sovereign Stack”—the data, the energy, and the algorithm. As the military clock continues to accelerate, the world must decide if our legal and ethical frameworks can ever hope to catch up.
#US #Iran #Israel #AIWarfare #OperationEpicFury #LUCASDrone #FutureOfWar #Geopolitics #TechNews #GlobalSupplyChain #NationalSecurity #TechDecoupling
-
The era of the "script kiddie" is dead. We're now facing a cold, industrial machine that scales attacks at a velocity humans can't match. It’s time to move beyond the hype and face the reality of weaponized AI. 🛡️💻
-
The era of the "script kiddie" is dead. We're now facing a cold, industrial machine that scales attacks at a velocity humans can't match. It’s time to move beyond the hype and face the reality of weaponized AI. 🛡️💻
-
"Militaries are not yet relying entirely on automated systems, but they are also not solely based on human operators, Feldstein said. And while AI systems for fully autonomous weapons — a red line for Anthropic – are yet to be developed, there’s a growing gap between deployment capabilities and governance, he said.
“Do we have the right rules in place and accountability norms to handle the exponential growing use of these tools? My answer would be no,” Feldstein said, pointing to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address at the United Nations in September on AI-powered weapons. Zelenskyy warned that AI had triggered the “most destructive arms race in human history,” and made a plea for urgent global rules on how AI can be used in weapons.
“Sadly, I’m not convinced other leaders have taken his warning to heart,” Feldstein said. “I think we are setting ourselves up for major problems in this arena in the coming years.”"
-
"Militaries are not yet relying entirely on automated systems, but they are also not solely based on human operators, Feldstein said. And while AI systems for fully autonomous weapons — a red line for Anthropic – are yet to be developed, there’s a growing gap between deployment capabilities and governance, he said.
“Do we have the right rules in place and accountability norms to handle the exponential growing use of these tools? My answer would be no,” Feldstein said, pointing to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address at the United Nations in September on AI-powered weapons. Zelenskyy warned that AI had triggered the “most destructive arms race in human history,” and made a plea for urgent global rules on how AI can be used in weapons.
“Sadly, I’m not convinced other leaders have taken his warning to heart,” Feldstein said. “I think we are setting ourselves up for major problems in this arena in the coming years.”"
-
#BreakThroughNews #war #iran #israel #us #military #fascism #AI #techbros #incels #men #AIwarfare #nazis #fcknazis #stopfascism #YanisVaroufakis interview on the current dystopia www.youtube.com/watch?v=py0O...
War on Iran Could Crash the Gl... -
#BreakThroughNews #war #iran #israel #us #military #fascism #AI #techbros #incels #men #AIwarfare #nazis #fcknazis #stopfascism
#YanisVaroufakis interview on the current dystopia manufactured and orchestrated by murderous #techbros
-
#BreakThroughNews #war #iran #israel #us #military #fascism #AI #techbros #incels #men #AIwarfare #nazis #fcknazis #stopfascism
#YanisVaroufakis interview on the current dystopia manufactured and orchestrated by murderous #techbros
-
The AI Scandal Rocking Silicon Valley - Taylor Lorenz and Ross Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUyNzwNuo58
#TaylorLorenz #RossAnderson #Claude #ChatGPT #SiliconValley #ChatGPT #USpol #OpenAI #AIwarfare #surveillance #FuckAI #AutonomousWeapons
-
The AI Scandal Rocking Silicon Valley - Taylor Lorenz and Ross Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUyNzwNuo58
#TaylorLorenz #RossAnderson #Claude #ChatGPT #SiliconValley #ChatGPT #USpol #OpenAI #AIwarfare #surveillance #FuckAI #AutonomousWeapons
-
The Algorithmic War: How the US-Iran Conflict Reshaping the Future of Warfare and Global Technology ? Why the 2026 Iran Conflict is a Warning to the World? www.nbloglinks.com/the-algorith... #US #Iran #israel #war #technology #technews #AI #AIWarfare #OperationEpicFury #LUCASDrone #FutureOfWar
The Algorithmic War: How the U... -
The Algorithmic War: How the US-Iran Conflict Reshaping the Future of Warfare and Global Technology ? Why the 2026 Iran Conflict is a Warning to the World? www.nbloglinks.com/the-algorith... #US #Iran #israel #war #technology #technews #AI #AIWarfare #OperationEpicFury #LUCASDrone #FutureOfWar
The Algorithmic War: How the U... -
This is a good overview of the recent/current debacle about ethical ai use by the military.
The Pentagon strongarmed AI firms before Iran strikes – in dark news for the future of ‘ethical AI’
The Pentagon strongarmed AI firms before Iran strikes – in dark news for the future of ‘ethical AI’ https://share.google/DDupyJuoBMdBb1ftB -
Anthropic v the US military: what this public feud says about the use of AI in warfare. #AIwarfare #Anthropic #Claude #DepartmentofDefense #Militarytechnology #PeteHegseth #Technology #USDepartmentofDefense #USmilitary
https://iwpost.com/anthropic-v-the-us-military-what-this-public-feud-says-about-the-use-of-ai-in-warfare/?fsp_sid=3148 -
Anthropic v the US military: what this public feud says about the use of AI in warfare. #AIwarfare #Anthropic #Claude #DepartmentofDefense #Militarytechnology #PeteHegseth #Technology #USDepartmentofDefense #USmilitary
https://iwpost.com/anthropic-v-the-us-military-what-this-public-feud-says-about-the-use-of-ai-in-warfare/?fsp_sid=3148 -
The Future of Warfare
Are we ready to trust AI in war?
Watch now and join the conversation.
Like, share, and visit our website for more insights on the future of military technology.YouTube:
https://youtube.com/shorts/eObvUZbgfM8#AIwarfare #autonomousdrones #futureofwar #militarytechnology #Ukraineconflict #AIethics #exoskeletons #killerdrones #artificialintelligence #wartechnology #machinelearninginwar #autonomousweapons #dronewarfare #AIdecisionmaking #ethicalAI
-
The Future of Warfare
Are we ready to trust AI in war?
Watch now and join the conversation.
Like, share, and visit our website for more insights on the future of military technology.YouTube:
https://youtube.com/shorts/eObvUZbgfM8#AIwarfare #autonomousdrones #futureofwar #militarytechnology #Ukraineconflict #AIethics #exoskeletons #killerdrones #artificialintelligence #wartechnology #machinelearninginwar #autonomousweapons #dronewarfare #AIdecisionmaking #ethicalAI
-
The Future of Warfare
Are we ready to trust AI in war?
Watch now and join the conversation.
Like, share, and visit our website for more insights on the future of military technology.YouTube:
https://youtube.com/shorts/eObvUZbgfM8#AIwarfare #autonomousdrones #futureofwar #militarytechnology #Ukraineconflict #AIethics #exoskeletons #killerdrones #artificialintelligence #wartechnology #machinelearninginwar #autonomousweapons #dronewarfare #AIdecisionmaking #ethicalAI
-
The Future of Warfare
Are we ready to trust AI in war?
Watch now and join the conversation.
Like, share, and visit our website for more insights on the future of military technology.YouTube:
https://youtube.com/shorts/eObvUZbgfM8#AIwarfare #autonomousdrones #futureofwar #militarytechnology #Ukraineconflict #AIethics #exoskeletons #killerdrones #artificialintelligence #wartechnology #machinelearninginwar #autonomousweapons #dronewarfare #AIdecisionmaking #ethicalAI
-
The Future of Warfare
Are we ready to trust AI in war?
Watch now and join the conversation.
Like, share, and visit our website for more insights on the future of military technology.YouTube:
https://youtube.com/shorts/eObvUZbgfM8#AIwarfare #autonomousdrones #futureofwar #militarytechnology #Ukraineconflict #AIethics #exoskeletons #killerdrones #artificialintelligence #wartechnology #machinelearninginwar #autonomousweapons #dronewarfare #AIdecisionmaking #ethicalAI
-
Ba “quái vật” công nghệ: Virtus VTOL (tái sử dụng), HX-2 (chống nhiễu điện tử), FV-104 (swarm) phối hợp như bộ óc tập thể, tự học tự phối hợp với 12.000 “quả bom bay”—một “game changer” thực sự. #CôngNghệ #UAV #DroneSwarm #Virtus #HX2 #FV104 #GameChanger #PhòngThủ #QuânSự #Automation #AIWarfare #SmartWeapons
-
Anduril Industries, the AI-driven defense startup founded by Palmer Luckey, is acquiring Irish tech firm Klas to boost its battlefield AI capabilities. Klas’s rugged communication tech will power Anduril’s Lattice platform used to control autonomous drones and gather real-time combat intelligence.
#Anduril #AIWarfare #DefenseTech #PalmerLuckey #AutonomousSystems #MilitaryAI #TechAcquisition #NationalSecurity #Innovation #EthicalAI
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/anduril-klas-acquisition-boosts-ai-defense-systems/
-
"Today marks one year since workers with No Tech for Apartheid staged sit-ins at Google offices to protest the use of our labor to power the genocide in Gaza, to demand an end the harassment and discrimination of our Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab coworkers, and to pressure executives to address the workplace health and safety crisis that Nimbus has caused. Google retaliated against workers and illegally fired 50 Googlers—including many who did not participate directly in the action.
In the year since, Google has only deepened its commitment to being a military contractor. Two months ago, in order to take advantage of the federal contracts the corporation can gain under Trump, Google abandoned its pledge not to build AI for weapons or surveillance. In rapid succession, Google then acquired Israeli cloud security start-up Wiz, pursued partnerships with US Customs and Border Patrol to update towers by Israeli war contractor Elbit Systems with AI at the US-Mexico border, and launched an AI partnership with the largest war profiteer in the world: Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon are no longer the only war corporations in town; Google and big tech are increasingly eating their lunch. Big tech companies are being pushed by the market to continue to bank returns. But having saturated the consumer and enterprise markets, corporations like Google, in a contentious arms race to dominate the cloud market, have identified the ever-ballooning so-called “defense” budgets of the US and other governments as major pots for profit.
One thing is clear: We urgently need an AI arms embargo."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/google-employee-speaks-out-war-contracting/
#USA #Google #BigTech #Surveillance #AIWarfare #ProjectNimbus
-
"Today marks one year since workers with No Tech for Apartheid staged sit-ins at Google offices to protest the use of our labor to power the genocide in Gaza, to demand an end the harassment and discrimination of our Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab coworkers, and to pressure executives to address the workplace health and safety crisis that Nimbus has caused. Google retaliated against workers and illegally fired 50 Googlers—including many who did not participate directly in the action.
In the year since, Google has only deepened its commitment to being a military contractor. Two months ago, in order to take advantage of the federal contracts the corporation can gain under Trump, Google abandoned its pledge not to build AI for weapons or surveillance. In rapid succession, Google then acquired Israeli cloud security start-up Wiz, pursued partnerships with US Customs and Border Patrol to update towers by Israeli war contractor Elbit Systems with AI at the US-Mexico border, and launched an AI partnership with the largest war profiteer in the world: Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon are no longer the only war corporations in town; Google and big tech are increasingly eating their lunch. Big tech companies are being pushed by the market to continue to bank returns. But having saturated the consumer and enterprise markets, corporations like Google, in a contentious arms race to dominate the cloud market, have identified the ever-ballooning so-called “defense” budgets of the US and other governments as major pots for profit.
One thing is clear: We urgently need an AI arms embargo."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/google-employee-speaks-out-war-contracting/
#USA #Google #BigTech #Surveillance #AIWarfare #ProjectNimbus
-
It was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses.
“We were not interested in killing operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity. On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”
Yuval Abraham reports: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
(to follow) 🧶#longThread @palestine @israel @ethics @military @idf @terrorism
#AIWar #technoCriticism #ethics #efficiency #innovation #Targeting #industrialization #intelligence #casualties #dev #history #data #EDA #planning #OSINT #military #army #C4I #ES2 #IDI #IDF #genocide #Lotem #Habsora #Lavender #dataDon #dataGovernance #tech #techCulture #engineering #AI #generativeAI #fix #externalities #productivity #bias #AIWarfare #AIEthics #AIRisks #collateralDamage #dehumanisation #airStrikes #bombing #counterTerrorism #israel #Gaza #Hamas #warCrimes #JewishSupremacy
-
It was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses.
“We were not interested in killing operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity. On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”
Yuval Abraham reports: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
(to follow) 🧶#longThread @palestine @israel @ethics @military @idf @terrorism
#AIWar #technoCriticism #ethics #efficiency #innovation #Targeting #industrialization #intelligence #casualties #dev #history #data #EDA #planning #OSINT #military #army #C4I #ES2 #IDI #IDF #genocide #Lotem #Habsora #Lavender #dataDon #dataGovernance #tech #techCulture #engineering #AI #generativeAI #fix #externalities #productivity #bias #AIWarfare #AIEthics #AIRisks #collateralDamage #dehumanisation #airStrikes #bombing #counterTerrorism #israel #Gaza #Hamas #warCrimes #JewishSupremacy