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>>ahmetc+(OP)
The biggest problem with this isn’t the horror of the actual war crime. The far more serious concern are the lengths the government will go to avoid holding anyone accountable. That is so much worse because it unintentionally endorses future crimes and challenges the offenders to take ever more offensive actions without fear of consequences.

>>austin+C2
Even ignoring primary crimes, under Israeli law, even incitement to genocide is punishable by death. But so many members of the political and media elite have made inciting statements, that the rubicon is crossed; the political class cannot allow any serious, independent consideration of war crimes to ever occur, because that would risk them all facing the firing squad. This in turn signals to individual soldiers that there will be no accountability, even in the absence of directives.

>>ajb+U9
Where I hope this comes back, after the conflict and a new Israel government, is human culpability for automated systems.

AI being whitewashing for IP is disruptive and troubling.

It being whitewashing for war crimes is a much more serious problem.

If Israel/IDF put in place a automated system that gave effectively caused war crimes to be committed, some humans in positions of power need to be held responsible and face consequences.

The world should not allow cases where (a) it's undisputed that war crimes occurred but (b) authority was interwoven in an automated system in such a way that humans escape consequences.

Sadly, it'll probably take the fall of right-wing Israeli and current Russian governments to have a hope of passing through.