AI systems are accelerating military kill chains, enabling targeting decisions that once took weeks to be made in seconds. Drawing on the US-Israel war on Iran as a case study, the piece traces the history of speed-focused military technology from WWII aerial targeting to armed drones and now AI tools like Lavender and Gospel. It highlights alarming risks: AI lowering the threshold for war, civilian casualties from automated targeting, the dismantling of civilian protection infrastructure under the Trump administration, and the sidelining of military lawyers who advise on international law compliance.
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