Description: The AI system "Lavender" has reportedly been used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to identify targets in Gaza with minimal human oversight, resulting in allegedly high civilian casualty rates. The system, designed to speed up target identification, seems to have led to significant errors and mass casualties.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unit 8200 and Israel Defense Forces developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Palestinians and Gazans.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
672
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2024-04-03
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
972mag.com · 2024
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In 2021, a book titled "The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World" was released in English under the pen name "Brigadier General Y.S." In it, the author --- a m…
yahoo.com · 2024
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Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.