https://www.gzeromedia.com/video/gzero-world-clips/what-israel-s-use-of-ai-in-gaza-revealed-about-their-civilian-harm-thresholds
GZERO Staff
May 12, 2026
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Bloomberg defense tech reporter Katrina Manson, author of a new book on Project Maven, discusses what the IDF’s use of AI in Gaza reveals about the gap between US and Israeli standards for civilian harm. Manson draws on investigative reporting from 972 Magazine, as well as her own conversations with US military officials who analyzed the IDF‘s approach.
That reporting found very little time between AI-surfaced intelligence and actual strikes. US officials told Manson that Israel had not broken the laws of armed conflict, but was “leaning in towards autonomous processes in a way that the US had never leaned anywhere near as close.”
What this reveals is a stark difference in how two allied militaries weigh civilian harm. Manson says the IDF was prepared to accept higher casualty numbers per mid-ranking target than US military tradition allows. That gap is a policy question as much as a technology one; as Manson and Drew Kukor, the former chief of Project Maven, both acknowledge, AI and policy are “absolutely interlinked”.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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