Israeli-led AI caused carnage in Gaza

Israeli-led AI caused carnage in Gaza

With the broadcast of my new film series, The Palestine Laboratory, South China Morning Post columnist Alex Ho writes about supposedly ethical US/Israeli AI versus the authoritarian Chinese AI model: Predictably, the backlash against China’s DeepSeek has begun in America. But the most outlandish criticism must be the one trying to distinguish “authoritarian AI” from “democratic…

The Palestine Laboratory film part 1

This is part 1 of my documentary series, The Palestine Laboratory, made with the UK production company Black Leaf Films and director Dan Davies. It broadcast globally on Al Jazeera English. This episode digs deep into how Israel uses the occupied, Palestinian Territories as a testing ground for the newest weapons and surveillance tech.

The dark ideologies behind AI-enabled warfare

The dark ideologies behind AI-enabled warfare

The use of AI in warfare is a very hot topic right now but too often the ideology behind this technological advancement is ignored or downplayed. Here’s my recent, virtual lecture to a major AI conference in Helsinki, Finland where I discuss these issues especially in relation to Israel/Palestine and the war against Gaza. My…

The AI “revolution” is piracy for authors

The AI “revolution” is piracy for authors

I recently discovered that some of my books are being used illegally to “train” AI models: This story in Books + Publishing explains what’s at stake: The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has responded to the large-scale unauthorised use of books by Australian authors in a dataset used to train generative artificial intelligence. The training…