Ai Killing?

Sense Receptor
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"Lavender is a software Palantir [built] for the Israeli IDF...they were using [it] to bomb [Gaza]...[so] no personnel...could be legally held accountable if the bombing was in violation of international law...it [makes] the process of genociding children much easier." (1/4)

Investment banker, former HUD official, and founder of the Solari Report (Twitter @solari_the) Catherine Austin Fitts describes for Mel K (Twitter @MelKShow) how the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has been using AI technology developed by Peter Thiel's Palantir to select targets for its mass destruction campaign in Gaza. (Mass destruction campaign is *my term*.) Fitts notes that the IDF uses Lavender so that nobody in its chain of command can be held legally responsible if the bombing is in violation of international law.

"Lavender is a software that Palantir helped build for the Israeli IDF...[and] after October 7th [when the] Israeli IDF moved into the Gaza area, they were using Lavender to bomb," Fitts says. "And what was explained was that if the software picked the targets, then no personnel in the Israeli IDF could be legally held accountable if the bombing was in violation of international law."

The investment banker and former HUD adds: "So [they've organized] the software that way [so it] completely protects the individual officer from any accountability under the law. Okay? And I'm assuming also some feeling of moral responsibility...and so it can make the process of genociding children much easier."

Fittes goes on to highlight one instance of Peter Thiel looking very uneasy at a debate at Cambridge held on May 8, 2024 as he attempts to defend the IDF's use of Lavender:

"There's someone in Cambridge asking Peter Thiel about this, and he completely does a meltdown because he's beginning to realize maybe he's not legally responsible, but in the court of popular opinion, he's gonna be held accountable.

"Now why do I tell that story?...Think of what's happening there as a prototype. Okay? You can use robots, drones, automated weapons, and this kind of software to do things that would never have been contemplated 10 or 20 years ago."