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…
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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 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…
Electronic Intifada tackles hi-tech genocide in Gaza
My extended conversation with The Electronic Intifada on Israel’s use of hi-tech weapons and AI in its slaughter in Gaza. My segment starts at 18:08:
CNN interview on Israel’s extensive use of AI-backed killing and facial recognition tech in Gaza
My latest CNN interview is about Israel’s widespread use of AI and facial recognition in Gaza.
Al Jazeera English interview on AI-enabled killing in Gaza
My interview on Al Jazeera English about the latest revelations (thanks to the Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham in +972 Magazine) about Israel killing huge numbers of Palestinians in Gaza due to AI-enabled tech.

Don’t believe the AI hype that claims it makes war safer
There’s been a lot of hype, often pushed by Western nations, that AI-enabled warfare is more targeted. I spoke to Brian Merchant at the Los Angeles Times about this in the context of Israel’s war against Gaza: “The mistake has been, in the last two weeks, saying this was an intelligence failure. It wasn’t, it…

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…