“There is a death drive in all of this. It is a drive to lethality. It is a drive towards self-destruction but also the destruction of all others. That is what underlies these systems.”
–
This Machine Kills co-host
Jathan Sadowski, emphatically rejecting
Lavender, an AI system Israel uses to compile ‘kill lists’ of Gazans to target. Drawing a connection to using AI to screen and reject healthcare applicants, Sadowski argues the logic is the
exact same, but Lavender “will lead to an immediate kinetic death rather than a somewhat slower social death.”
