#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #BigTech #AI #ML: "Israel launched its assault on Gaza after Hamas fighters stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7 last year, killing 1,200 people and capturing around 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.

Goodfriend said the conflict in Gaza revealed the "lethal" effect of the application of high-tech systems in war.

"The scale of the destruction has made it hard to see any of this technology as neutral - and it's made a lot of people within the tech industry quite critical of supplying systems that are driving warfare," she told Context.

"There's no way Israel could have the technical infrastructure that they do without the support of private companies, and cloud computing infrastructure - they just wouldn't be able to operate their AI systems without the major tech conglomerates.""

https://www.context.news/big-tech/one-year-of-war-in-gaza-decoding-the-role-of-big-tech