"Iranian life is not so precious a thing, however. 1,400 civilians have been killed so far and the death count will certainly rise as America and Israel run out of military targets and turn to targeting civilians and their infrastructure. The Financial Times reports that as “the US and Israel sought to degrade regime institutions, they have hit more than 20,000 non-military buildings, according to Iran’s Red Crescent, including 17,353 that were residential.” Whatever legally required vetting and basic due diligence that might’ve been in place to minimize civilian deaths has been and will continue to be whittled down, by design, because the point of automated kill-chains is to compress the process, it is to “shrink that into seconds and minutes, almost instantaneous” as one anonymous defense tech expert told The Financial Times. The point is more targets, destroying in weeks what might’ve taken a traditional campaign months—and so, if civilians die they die.
And so we infest the earth with AI tools embedded at every stage of the kill chain—tools built by the same companies and financed by the same capital, that were supposed to inaugurate an era of American technological supremacy; the same tools tested and refined on Palestinians in Gaza over the course of Israel’s genocidal campaign."
https://www.thetechbubble.info/p/how-much-a-dollar-cost
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