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The US is to spend $480 million on a Palantir AI tool to identify terrorists in the Middle East, which so far has been used in a military conflict where 80% of the dead are civilians. (defensescoop.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Palantir's "AI" is crap and it's clear it has tons of false positives. But even if it was 100% accurate it wouldn't prevent the civilian deaths if the military getting the report carpet bombs everything around the identified terrorists without caring if there are civilians around - and when the Israeli spokesperson has a very precise estimate of how many Hamas members they killed but not even a ballpark number of estimated civilian deaths it's clear that's what's happening here.