Throughout its war in Gaza, the Israeli military has been relying on artificial intelligence to aid its targeting decisions for airstrikes. That’s meant a large volume of strikes, made more quickly. A team of reporters from The Associated Press found that’s in part thanks to AI tools offered by Microsoft, that included products from OpenAI. Michael Biesecker, a global investigative reporter for The Associated Press, talks about the findings his team of journalists dug up about the use of Microsoft and AI tools and how the Israeli military might have used them.
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