Report: AI Used by US Forces to Help Identify Hostile Targets in the Middle East

Report: AI Used by US Forces to Help Identify Hostile Targets in the Middle East
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Establishment-critical narrative

Military usage of AI technology is still very new and it has a huge capacity for abuse that could result in unintended crisis escalation and civilian casualties. Applications of this technology in military contexts are still largely untested and unregulated, with the threat of data manipulation like deep fakes posing potentially catastrophic threats.

Pro-establishment narrative

While the military using AI to find enemy targets for air strikes may sound scary, the reality is that humans are involved in every step of the process. At no point are the algorithms allowed to run wild without supervision, and human operators are constantly working to ensure that the technology is used safely and responsibly. While these algorithms are being used to find targets, humans are still the ones verifying the targets and deploying the weapons.

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