{"id":222842,"date":"2026-03-12T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/artificial-intelligence-has-brought-a-new-way-of-war-and-makes-crimes-harder-to-hide\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:05:11","slug":"artificial-intelligence-has-brought-a-new-way-of-war-and-makes-crimes-harder-to-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/artificial-intelligence-has-brought-a-new-way-of-war-and-makes-crimes-harder-to-hide\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence has brought a new way of war and makes crimes harder to hide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/artificial-intelligence-iran-gaza-israel-b2937251.html\">Artificial intelligence has brought a new way of war and makes crimes harder to hide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/artificial-intelligence-iran-gaza-israel-b2937251.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/artificial-intelligence-iran-gaza-israel-b2937251.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-12 13:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.independent.co.uk\">www.independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 data-testid=\"support-nsc-title\" class=\"sc-hez36s-2 jVZWGn\">Your support helps us to tell the story<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iCTyfe\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iCTyfe\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iCTyfe\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sc-1uza6dc-1 cglitp\">Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong><span data-testid=\"dropdown-with-gradient-dropdown-tablet\" class=\"sc-aja53j-3 dHXFkr\"><span data-action-type=\"Read more\" class=\"sc-aja53j-2 dcYUYI\">Read more<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-letter\">T<\/span>he staggering pace of air attacks by the US and Israel against Iran has been driven by artificial intelligence systems that contributed to the indictment of Israel\u2019s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>According to arms industry insiders and the US Department of War, more than 2,000 targets were hit by American forces in just four days of the ongoing Iran conflict. <\/p>\n<p>The speed of the \u201ckill chain\u201d has been drastically accelerated with the use of an AI system known as Maven. Sold to the Pentagon and developed with the Department of War by Palantir, the AI company signed a major deal with the UK\u2019s Ministry of Defence last December.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli attacks have been on a similar scale \u2013 also using AI \u2013 although insiders say that Palantir is not involved in targeting by the Israel Defence Force in Iran and was not involved in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The enclave has been the testing ground for the wide use of AI in targeting and was first revealed by the Israeli online magazine +972. The IDF system, known as Lavender, was used to find and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/artificial-intelligence-iran-gaza-israel-b2937251.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence has brought a new way of war and makes crimes harder to hide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/03\/09\/12\/15\/Screenshot-2026-03-09-at-11-52-28.png?trim=0,234,0,191&width=1200&height=800&crop=1200:800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222844,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222842\/revisions\/222844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}