{"id":49766,"date":"2021-09-20T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49766"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:20:45","slug":"media-reports-israeli-ai-killed-iranian-nuclear-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/media-reports-israeli-ai-killed-iranian-nuclear-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Media reports: Israeli AI killed Iranian nuclear scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 November 2020, Israeli intelligence services killed the leading Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh with a remote-controlled machine gun and artificial intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/18\/world\/middleeast\/iran-nuclear-fakhrizadeh-assassination-israel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><a>The New York Times<\/a><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, Israeli intelligence services mounted an autonomous machine gun on a pickup by the roadside along the scientist&#8217;s route, not far from Tehran. When Fakhrizadeh&#8217;s vehicle approached, a remote operator fired the weapon via satellite link. Operators used artificial intelligence to compensate for signal delay and recoil.<\/p>\n<p>The autonomous weapon fired 15 rounds in under a minute, killing the target. Fakhrizadeh&#8217;s wife, who was a few metres away from the scientist, was not harmed. Iranian investigators believe the operatives used facial recognition technology to accurately identify the target.<\/p>\n<p>No government has publicly confirmed the use of robotic weapons. According to sources, Iranian investigators determined the nature of the attack by accident: in an attempt to destroy evidence, Israeli forces blew up a truck, but the equipment remained undamaged. This allowed Iran to establish details of the Israeli operation.<\/p>\n<p>Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was known as the &#8216;father of the Iranian bomb&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the Israeli army deployed<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/israel-deploys-the-worlds-first-ai-guided-drone-swarm-in-real-combat\"> an AI-guided drone swarm<\/a> in real combat conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In late May, Israeli forces said that<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/drone-kills-a-person-robot-enrols-at-university-and-other-ai-news\"> they used AI and supercomputers in an 11-day conflict<\/a> in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the UN recorded<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/drone-kills-a-person-robot-enrols-at-university-and-other-ai-news\"> the first-ever case of a combat drone attacking a person<\/a> without a direct order from an operator.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s AI news on Telegram:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 November 2020, Israeli intelligence services killed the leading Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh with a remote-controlled machine gun and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,840,734,1670],"class_list":["post-49766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-weapons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49767,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49766\/revisions\/49767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}