Israeli AI is turning Palestine into a dystopian reality

New Arab | June 22, 2023

Artificial intelligence has become the latest frontier of Israel’s security apparatus, taking the occupation virtual. New draconian technologies will intensify the oppression and apartheid that Palestinians face, writes Emad Moussa.

In his short story, Songs of the Birds, Palestinian author Saleem Haddad tells us the story of Aya, a Palestinian girl from the future who lives in the shadow of her deceased brother, Ziyad, who committed suicide the year prior.

Aya sees Ziyad in her dreams every day and tells him that Palestine was liberated and justice was fulfilled. But, as the story escalates towards a terrifying revelation, Ziyad tells Aya that her perception of a liberated Palestine is nothing but a computer-generated simulation and that her memories are Israel-designed algorithms.

Haddad visualises a future where Israel uses artificial intelligence (AI) to extend its control of Palestinians beyond the physical reality, well into their subconsciousness. What is most disturbing about the story is not its radical dystopianism, but how close it is to today’s reality.

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2 Comments on Israeli AI is turning Palestine into a dystopian reality

  1. Yah has an ambush planned for Ai. As before, so He will again!!

    Joshua 8:1-3 (KJV) And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land: 2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it. 3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.

    Joshua 8:9-12 (KJV) Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people. 10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. 11 And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai. 12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

    Joshua 8:14 (KJV) And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

    Joshua 8:20-21 (KJV) And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers. 21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.

  2. STOP!
    The Hebrew Bible clearly shows the genocidal god and people called Israelites!
    Expect nothing but SLAUGHTER from them!
    BUT!
    The ARAB hates the ARAB and will not help one another!
    The ARABS did a deal with the ZIONIST ISRAELIS & the BRITISH about the CARVE-UP of PALESTINE.

    There’s the PALESTINIAN PROBLEM!

    The BRITISH believed in BRITISH ISRAELISM, that teaches CHRISTIANS were to help the “Israelites/Jews” RETURN to the PROMISED LAND.

    The MUSLIM ARAB was ignorant of this teaching and so were FOOLED by BRITISH PROMISES and AGREEMENTS.

    If you do an article on BRITISH ISRAELISM, it will help your readers to understand the PROBLEM in the Middle East!

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