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> I believe is already in place as Israel is using it already, and apparently failing miserably with all the civilians casualties. I don't think we have the da
by ajmurmann 2y ago
> I believe is already in place as Israel is using it already, and apparently failing miserably with all the civilians casualties.
I don't think we have the data to reliably determine the impact of Israel's AI usage on civilian casualties. Sam Harris this week had an expert for urban and subterranean warfare from West Point on. He explained that it's impossible to get accurate numbers this quickly. In Mosul we apparently didn't have any numbers till a year after the battle ended. The ones we eventually got had huge error margins. This is before we even talk about ability to trust the source of the numbers. He further makes the point that the reported numbers we have right now are astonishingly low given we are talking about a war in a dense urban area, especially once we consider that Hamas has dug a huge tunnel system under civilian infrastructure to which civilians don't get access for shelter.
The expert's explanations on the show are worth every minute of it.
Sauce: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/366-urban-warfare-2-0 https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/366...