| dc.description.abstract | The Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, resulting in another Israel-Hamas war,
has escalated geographically, involving regional entities, politically, creating a
tense situation in global audiences and technologically, revealing the dynamic
nature of modern warfare. There have been many official and backchannel
reports of the use of Automated Weapons by the Israel Defense Force (IDF) in
their attacks on civilian populated areas. This paper focuses on the use of
Artificial Intelligence in the War on Gaza and seeks to reveal the ethical
perspective of the use of AI in battlefields. AI-enabled targeting algorithms like
‘Lavender’, ‘Where’s Daddy’ and ‘Gospel’ have reiterated the way surveillance
and precision attacks are conducted amidst conflict. This use of technology to
induce mass casualties raises strong ethical questions in terms of the rules of
war. The use of technology is noted to conduct deep surveillance in civilian
populated areas and the reduction of human supervision in the decisionmaking
process evidentially has intensified the civilian casualty numbers. The
new dynamic of warfare raises a serious question on ethics and the protection
of basic human rights of civilians in these warring areas in Palestine. With
human lives at stake, we must understand wholly and question whether
weaponizing AI to this degree would stop at genocide or whether it will
unescapably create worse. This paper will analyze the various reports and news
coverage of the war on Gaza since October 7th to show the extent of Artificial
Intelligence in this war and its ethical implications. This paper uncovers
questions regarding the ethical reality of using such means for war. Wars are
inevitable, however, in the 21st century, the weaponization of AI technology
has turned warfighting into an inhumanely brutal affair. The paper highlights
the ethical implications of the age of new warfare which now transcends to
breaking rules of engagement creating grey areas in warfare in the present
and into the future. | en_US |
