- Operation of the gun can be used as training data for AI
- Eventually we won't know when the gun becomes completely guided by AI
There is an entire branch of the IDF responsible for border sensor and control systems, and operation is done mostly by women.
Be truthful, you imagined a man being behind the trigger.
I find it very intersting how AI can augment modern warfare. Drones + AI wins wars with minimal damage.
Or in Israel's case, according to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, maintain an apartheid system in a cost effective and efficient fashion. Kudos to them, they are pushing the state of the art here...
https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/isra...
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apart...
Israel has killed babies with tear gas and maimed children with sponge-tipped bullets before. This will continue as there wont be any consequences at all for the sadists operating these guns. Previously they could at least be caught on film and the outcry would force some kind of investigation. Now there is not even that and no one will be held responsible for maiming children. This is precisely why the Israeli academy should be boycotted. Because it helps the Israeli regime develop these kind of extremely disturbing weapons.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/7/10/palestinian-baby-di... https://www.dci-palestine.org/sponge_tipped_bullet_fired_by_...
Al Jazeera is literally Qatari government propaganda and there’s substantial evidence that DCI Palestine is tied to terrorist groups (https://www.reuters.com/world/finnish-christian-charity-cuts...). Don’t let propagandists blow tragic accidents out of proportion to scapegoat the Jews
Furthermore there has already been at least one Mossad operation where they assassinated someone with a lethal remote controlled gun.
For whoever it's shooting at, it has the same psychological effect as a robot shooting.
Isn’t it objectively better than lethally-armed soldiers?
https://www.wired.com/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/
Many industry welding robots are also not exactly autonomous. There are bomb disposal robots that are remote controlled. We don't need to reserve the term for the T1000.
I think you mean to say they're not AI, but they are still robotic.
No way ever ever ever that this could be used in a slightly different, more deadly manner.
Maybe they can even add sensors that shout "ow" when hit with rocks by children so they can document the reason for a use of force.
Edit: seems like the headline burried the lead, that they are using this for non leathal force crowd control, which i can understand how that could be controversial.
And to be fair (making both sides equally pissed off here), from the Palestinian perspective, the violent opposition is seen to be necessitated by the violent oppression and other injustices.
But for Israel it’s not just about their internal opposition. They are surrounded by enemies near and far interested in their violent demise. So of course they are highly motivated to develop effective weapons.
It would be one thing if these types of weapons were used for defense versus offense. Then selling off that offensive weapon to fund more offensive weapons. These weapons that were created as you said to combat violent opposition, enables Nation States and Authoritarian Regimes to target journalists and whistleblowers.
