The Challenges of AI to International Law: The Case of Gaza
The Israeli military has been operating such attacks with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs such as automated drones loaded with unguided “dumb bombs”. Although Israel had previously used a similar AI system called Habsora[iii] to carry out attacks in Gaza, this is the first time when the IDF has used AI in military attacks widely and indiscriminately to cause unprecedented civilian deaths in Gaza. In recent attacks, Israel used a technology called Lavender, an AI-based database system to identify more than 37,000 targets based on their links with Hamas.