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diff --git a/content-org/blog.org b/content-org/blog.org index c277486..8f5a331 100644 --- a/content-org/blog.org +++ b/content-org/blog.org @@ -7,12 +7,48 @@ #+HUGO_WEIGHT: auto #+HUGO_SECTION: blog -* 2024 [26/27] :@blog: +* 2024 [27/27] :@blog: :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: blog/2024 :END: -** TODO Don McMillan -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwz-Md6OoyA +** DONE AI is already used for genocide +CLOSED: [2024-04-04 Thu 21:28] +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: ai-genocide +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: abstract Israel already uses AI systems during wartime without care of civilian casualties. +:EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-r +:END: + +Today, an article on use of AI systems for selecting and targeting Hamas soldiers was published by [[https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/][972 magazine.]] +The entire article is an essential read for anyone, but one paragraph especially caught my eye: + +#+begin_quote +The Lavender software analyzes information collected on most of the 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip through a system of mass surveillance, then assesses and ranks the likelihood that each particular person is active in the military wing of Hamas or PIJ. +According to sources, the machine gives almost every single person in Gaza a rating from 1 to 100, expressing how likely it is that they are a militant." +#+end_quote + +We already have an active AI system which is capable of mass surveillance of gigantic population. +A system which is used to target people for extermination. +A system which has 10% error rate: + +#+begin_quote +[...] knowing that the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all. +#+end_quote + +Think, what would have happened if your bank made an error in 1 on 10 transactions? +And we are talking about human lives here. + +Not only is the system correct only 90% of time times, but also the results are used to target bombings where it is accepted that few hundred civilians will be killed. + +1 in 10 chance, that 300 people will just for nothing. +Dumb computer error. + +As a software engineer, I refused to work on GenAI, and at the same time someone worked on mass murder system with a random chance of being correct. + +Please, read the entire [[https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/][article]]. +We're already in worst-case scenario. +This is the doomsday scenario we were so afraid of. + ** DONE Absolute FreeBSD CLOSED: [2024-03-28 Thu 22:08] :PROPERTIES: @@ -1887,3 +1923,5 @@ Wikpedia has a list of /controvesion subjecs/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki ** New things make me sad +** TODO Don McMillan +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwz-Md6OoyA |