💢 Artificial Intelligence: A Dangerous Journey 💢
🔺 The biggest threat to us is not artificial intelligence itself, but humans succumbing to it. The idea of AI is no longer just science fiction or a simple assistance tool. It has gone beyond that stage and has become an adversary to the human spirit in the realm of thinking, creativity, and decision-making. Artificial intelligence is more than just a technological leap. It is a complex interplay between progress and regression, empowerment and disability.
🔽 Artificial intelligence concept and how it works
It is a field that simulates human intellectual abilities and operates with human-like intelligence.
🔺 It works by processing vast amounts of unstructured data, collecting and aggregating data in one place to make it easier for users to find it.
🔻 Who controls artificial intelligence?
They are the same entities that control the world economy.
Who controls the functions of artificial intelligence?
There are proposals to frame it not as a social system to be managed wisely, but as a geopolitical competition for dominance and victory.
AI can be used for domination and victory, even though all societies benefit from its unique advantages.
Washington: Enrique Dance.
Publication date: September 7, 2025 AD — Rabbi Al-Awwal 14, 1447 AH
In Silicon Valley boardrooms, a small group of executives quietly make decisions that shape the lives of billions of people. Most of us don't know what that decision is until it's too late to change.
🔽 America's Artificial Intelligence Plan
Last July, the White House released the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Action Plan, a 28-page document similar to industrial policy for a new arms race.
⭕ There's a sentence in that first pillar that tells you exactly where U.S. policy is heading. “Revisit the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework to remove references to misinformation, diversity, equity, inclusion, and climate change.”
⬅️ If the government starts intentionally removing these words, it's natural to ask the following questions: Who is setting the terms of our technological future, and for whose benefit? Less surveillance…and geopolitical competition
◀️ This is more than just a story. The plan itself boasts of reversing the previous US administration's executive orders on AI, easing oversight, and accelerating the pace of data center infrastructure and energy. AI will fundamentally be reimagined as a geopolitical competition aimed at domination and victory, rather than a social system to be managed. This is a perspective that focuses less on governance and more on deal-making, a style of governance that treats public policy like a terms-of-use document.
🔽 European roads
Europe has chosen a very different path, first imposing restrictions and then expanding them. The European Union's AI law came into force in August 2024, with a risk-based implementation design and phased-in obligations until 2026. Is it perfect? Certainly not. But the message is clear. Democratic institutions, as well as corporate communications departments, must determine permissible uses, disclosures, and responsibilities before technology becomes ubiquitous.
🔽 Businesses control AI
At the same time, the importance of AI is concentrated in the hands of a few companies that control the computing capabilities, models, and distribution. Take computing for example. Specifically, in addition to models and distribution, we consider the accelerated computing power (GPU/faster CPU processing time) required to train and operate modern AI.
🔽 AI application field
· Used in electronic commerce.
-Used in the medical field to analyze medical images.
・Used for precision robotic surgery.
· Used in the development of automotive technology.
・We provide an educational system that provides customized content for each student and is used in educational settings.
🔽 Dependence on AI
We rely heavily on AI in the following areas:
· Investment
・Manufacturing industry
· medicine
· Financial sector
· E-commerce (e.g. Amazon, Netflix)
・Education
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🔽 Positive aspects of AI
Its most prominent advantages and benefits are:
1. Error-free processing: When humans perform tasks, it is human nature to be prone to errors. Therefore, it can be said that AI-powered devices surpass humans in terms of efficiency and error reduction.
2. Assistance with repetitive tasks: Humans are known to struggle with repetitive tasks that reduce efficiency and productivity, and AI technology has emerged to solve this problem.
3. Always available: This is one of the most important features of an AI system, its operational ability to provide services 24 hours a day.
4. Make the right decisions
5. Digital Assistance: All AI applications provide digital assistance that agencies use to perform various automated tasks.
6. Use in hazardous situations: Humans are often unable to perform dangerous experiments such as deep sea exploration or handling of hazardous materials. However, AI systems can be used to perform these tasks. When used properly, they allow scientists to make inventions with minimal risk to human life.
7. Emergence of new inventions: With the use of AI, many technologies have emerged that help in delivering innovative solutions such as early detection of cancer, greatly benefiting the healthcare sector.
8. Scalability: Companies that rely on AI systems benefit from the scalability characteristic of these systems, which allows them to handle increasing amounts of data and user requests while maintaining accuracy and efficiency, benefiting them during the growth phase.
🔽 The negative and dark side of AI
· Increase in unemployment.
· Creativity is weakened and the real mind is replaced by a fake mind.
· High reliance on data that is vulnerable to unauthorized access creates security and privacy risks.
· Increased laziness among individuals due to increased dependence on devices due to task automation.
· Use in the field of war. This is one of the biggest drawbacks of AI. For example, Israel has been using AI extensively in the Gaza war since 2023. This technology has become a central axis of geopolitical analysis and ethical and legal criticism in the region.
🔽 Key military AI tools used by Israel
1. “Lavender” system
· Identification of individuals suspected of belonging to a faction. It uses machine learning techniques to analyze vast amounts of surveillance data and assign a suspicion score to each individual.
· This system was used to generate a list of human targets, at one time reaching up to 37,000 names. Sources reported that the system was used to target lower-ranking elements in an “automatic killing chain” and was authorized to kill large numbers of civilians (15-20) to target a single low-ranking suspect.
2. “Gospel”/”Habsora” system
· Uses algorithms to generate a list of physical targets (buildings, facilities, tunnels) rather than individuals.
-This system has greatly contributed to speeding up business operations. According to the report, Israel used this to identify 200 targets in just 12 days, compared to previously identifying up to 100 targets a year.
🔻 Additionally, AI is used in the following areas:
· Monitor evacuation activities: Track the movement of civilians in the Gaza Strip on an interactive map using mobile phone location data.
・Face and voice recognition: Identify individuals even when their faces are partially hidden.
· Arabic chatbot: Analyzes text messages and social media posts.
🔽 Ethical risks
🔻 These systems have drawn sharp criticism from several parties.
· High numbers of civilian casualties: Reliance on the system has resulted in erroneous identifications and civilian injuries, including an attack targeting a Hamas commander that resulted in the deaths of 125 civilians.
· Violations of international law: Organizations like Human Rights Watch say these tools can lack accuracy, rely on biased data, put civilians at risk, and violate international humanitarian law's principles of distinction and proportionality.
· Weak human oversight: Some operators reported that their role became an “automatic stamp of approval” and they spent only 20 seconds on each target suggested by the AI.
💢 Psychological impact on the operator:
There are indications that the machine's ruthlessness and its “emotionless” decisions have made the targeting process psychologically easier for some operators compared to human decisions.
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🔽 The use of AI goes beyond military aspects to encompass broader strategic aspects.
1. Role of big tech companies (alleged collusion): The Palestine Policy Network (al-Shabaka) considers companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft to be colluding through contracts such as the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus, which provided the Israeli government with powerful cloud infrastructure used in military AI tools. Reserve soldiers serving in these companies transferred their technical expertise directly to Israeli Intelligence Unit 8200.
2. Strategic transformation of the Israeli military: Israel established the “AI Brigade” as a permanent military organization, confirming that the transition to “digital warfare” is not a temporary measure but a long-term strategy. The brigade contributes to the development of robots, generation of targets and analysis of vast amounts of data for the benefit of field forces.
🔽 Conclusion:
Artificial intelligence has good and bad aspects, such as replacing real minds with false ones and exploiting it for moral corruption. Among its biggest downsides and most prominent examples of its use is Israel's adoption of this aspect in Gaza as a field laboratory to test and develop integrated systems of military AI tools, supported by partnerships with the global technology sector.
⭕ This transformation is the central axis of geopolitical development. It not only changes the nature of armed conflict, but also raises serious dilemmas about the responsibility of technology companies, gaps in international oversight, and the future of war.
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📕 Source:
· Gulf Training and Education Company
· Digital government authority
· Al Jazeera Research Center
· Al-Mayadeen News Website
