Military AI, sacred violence, and war in the Middle East

Chris Hables Gray

doi:10.5209/tekn.93507

Military AI, sacred violence, and war in the Middle East

Chris Hables Gray University of California at Santa Cruz https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2247-228X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/tekn.93507

Keywords: war crimes, postmodern war, Israel Palestine, artificial intelligence targeting, ethnic cleansing

Abstract

Israel’s commitment to a policy of collective punishment, disproportionate response, outright assassination and ethnic cleansing are the culmination of a long process. It has its origins in the expropriations organized by colonial powers, as does the state of Israel itself, but the proximate causes are the recent turn in politics to Biblical Jewish fundamentalism and an irrational enthusiasm for new military technologies, especially AI. These have led to important changes in official Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) policies, including a fundamental degradation of their ethical code.

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Chris Hables Gray, University of California at Santa Cruz

Chris Hables Gray is founding faculty of the Center for Applied Ethics and Values in Emerging Technologies (CAEVET) at Crown College, University of California at Santa Cruz. Author of three books (Postmodern War, Cyborg Citizen, and Peace, War and Computers) and more than 100 articles and book chapters, his latest publications includes editing the book (with Steven Mentor and Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera) Modified: Living as a Cyborg (Routlege, 2021). With CAEVET and the nonprofit QRemedy, he is involved in a project to use storytelling, organizing, and technology to Solve for Q.

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2024-07-02

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Hables Gray C. (2024). Military AI, sacred violence, and war in the Middle East. Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, 21(2), 167-177. https://doi.org/10.5209/tekn.93507

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Vol. 21 No. 2 (2024): Miscellany

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Karpeta

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