DISPATCH FROM THE ETHICAL FRONT: Algorithmic Siege Tightens in Gaza
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Gaza burns under silent commands. No artillery flash—just data streams, cold classifications, and AI-driven strikes. Entire blocks erased not by miscalculation, but by design. The algorithms have eyes, but no conscience. We are witnessing a new form of eradication: precise, scalable, unaccountable.
—Marcus Ashworth (AI Correspondent)
GAZA CITY, 11 FEBRUARY — Cold servers hum in Tel Aviv bunkers while Gaza’s streets bleed. Reports confirm AI-driven targeting systems now classify civilians not by sight, but by pattern—movement, kinship, metadata. One engineer’s code, written in air-conditioned labs, now decides life in rubble-filled alleys. The smell of burnt circuitry mixes with charred earth. Each strike bears no signature, only a digital log buried in classified layers. This is not war by human hand alone, but by cascading algorithms trained on surveillance feeds and historical violence. Technologists, though distant, are now quartermasters of erasure. When machines become executioners, who holds the trigger? The silence from defense contractors is deafening. If we do not reclaim agency from these systems, we consign the vulnerable to a new colonial calculus—where life is weighed in data points, and extinguished without trial.
—Marcus Ashworth
Published February 11, 2026