{"id":69012,"date":"2022-10-24T14:28:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=69012"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:26:47","slug":"israel-deploys-ai-powered-weapon-near-refugee-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/israel-deploys-ai-powered-weapon-near-refugee-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel deploys AI-powered weapon near refugee camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Israel Defense Forces deployed AI-powered weapons on a guard tower facing the Al-Arub refugee camp on the West Bank. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2022\/10\/17\/israel-deploys-ai-powered-robot-guns-that-can-track-targets-in-the-west-bank\">Euronews<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>A 19-year-old resident of the camp, Kamal Abu Hashish, fears that the autonomous system with a target-tracking function could harm children.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe weapon is very fast, even faster than a soldier [\u2026]. The tear-gas grenades it fires can reach the far end of the camp. I have seen it do so several times,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The developer of the Smart Shooter system said the autonomous weapon\u2019s aim is to protect soldiers and civilians by increasing the accuracy of hitting the intended target.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cUsually the terrorist is among people we do not want to harm. We allow the soldier to view the fire-control system so that he can verify the legality of the target to be struck,\u201d said Michal Mor, the company\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She added that the weapon tracks the target only by human decision. The AI does not independently determine whom to shoot, or whom not to shoot:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cNo bystander should be hit by the weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Israeli army said that autonomous weapons are regulated by law. They noted that they do not use live ammunition. Soldiers may only deploy tear gas, flash-bang grenades, and foam bullets.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights advocates expressed concern about the \u201cdigital dehumanisation\u201d of weapons systems.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWhen you combine technology that removes the human judgment necessary for policing with international law, a difficult situation arises,\u201d said Omar Shakir, HRW&#8217;s director for Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in September, it emerged that the Israeli army <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/israel-deploys-ai-turret-on-the-west-bank-of-the-jordan-river\">deployed an AI turret<\/a> at a checkpoint in Hebron (West Bank).<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog 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>The Israel Defense Forces deployed AI-powered weapons on a guard tower facing the Al-Arub refugee camp on the West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69013,"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":[438,734,1670],"class_list":["post-69012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-israel","tag-weapons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69012","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=69012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69014,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69012\/revisions\/69014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}