in most of its projects. Their lies were not believable enough, their covers too obvious, the information they gathered too incomplete.
With the new capabilities of AI, all this changes. Anyone who can bribe AI providers to disable the ethical restrictions on AI will have the power to conduct an OSINT operation within minutes, which would normally require weeks and a team of dozens of humans.
There is no reason to think that the Israeli regime has access to AI technology other than what is available on the commercial market, but there is every reason to believe that it will go to any lengths and cross any red line to maintain apartheid and settler-colonialism against the Palestinian people.
Israel’s commander of the secret police, Ronen Bar, announced that this is already happening and that AI is utilized to make autonomous decisions online and surveil people on social media, in order to blame them for crimes that they have not yet committed. It’s a wake-up call that AI is already being weaponized by Israel. Preventing the harm caused by AI is only possible, however, if we take the time to understand it.We have hours left to raise the $12,000 we still need to keep Truthout whole.