One of the biggest mistakes of Israeli intelligence, which could not predict the Hamas attack, was its obsession with artificial intelligence. This view was expressed in an article by former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter. Consortium News.
“Israel’s fatal mistake was to openly praise the role of artificial intelligence in Operation Guardian of the Walls (operation in the Gaza Strip in 2021 – socialbites.ca),” Ritter wrote.
He explained that Hamas could likely seize control of the flow of information collected by Israel. According to the expert, the Israeli electronic intelligence unit has spent billions of dollars to collect a wide range of intelligence in the Gaza Strip. Ritter recalled that every square meter of Gaza was removed “every ten minutes.”
This amount of intelligence was processed by artificial intelligence, which Israel successfully used against Hamas, which maintained the same level of communication while adhering to an elaborate disinformation plan.
According to him, thanks to this technique, Israeli artificial intelligence algorithms were sure that “there was nothing strange.”
7 October Hamas forces launched Several thousand rockets were launched into Israel and the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was announced.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.