Israeli Army uses AI to choose goals: How is the mysterious Fire Factory system
Although the military does not comment on specific operations, officials say that they now use a SI recommendation system that can process huge amounts of data to select goals for air strikes. All raids and blows are forecast for the analytics from the Fire Factory system, which uses data on military goals approved to calculate the number of ammunition, prioritize priorities and indicate thousands of targets by planes and drones, and offers an appropriate optimal stroke.
All this is due to the fact that the system is based on artificial intelligence and progressive calculation algorithms. Details of the military, of course, do not reveal, but they say that Fire Factory, specially designed for a quick and accurate analytics of processing huge arrays of up -to -date and archival data "What took an hour earlier, now takes minutes, with a few minutes to check a person" , - said Colonel Uri, who heads the army unit of the digital transformation of the tank.
"Thanks to the development of neurotrans with the same number of people, we do much more than before," the military emphasized. The Israeli Defense Army has been using AI for a long time, but in recent years it has spread these systems to different units. Some of these systems were built by Israeli defense contractors; Others, such as Startrack Border Control cameras, have developed the military themselves.
This system combines the function of video surveillance with the rapid identification of people and objects that have been identified. Together, the system is a large digital architecture designed to analyze a huge number of videos from drones and video surveillance cameras, as well as satellite images. The tahal refuses to report any details of the facial recognition technology used in Startrack.
This system is actively criticized by human rights activists, but the Israeli military promises that they will not integrate artificial intelligence into software for hiring military personnel because of the risks of discriminating women and potential cadets from lower socio-economic groups. The most important factor that is concerned about human rights defenders is the risks of victims among civilians, which may appear due to the wrong solutions of artificial intelligence tools.
Israeli military is justified by the fact that neural networks are a very accurate tool, and analytics algorithms can exceed human capabilities and can help the military minimize losses. But some analysts do not suit this answer, they pay attention to the rapid and almost uncontrolled fact of development and use of systems based on artificial intelligence.
In addition, according to some experts-lawyers, today the boundary between semi-autonomous and completely autonomous systems is so blurred that it is often impossible to understand who eventually makes a military decision: a person or a car. "If there is a mistake in the CI calculations, then who do we blame for this mistake?", - asks Tal Mimran, a teacher of international law at Jewish University in Jerusalem and a former army legal advisor.