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Our guest is Avner Gvaryahu, former executive director of Breaking the Silence, which takes testimony from former Israeli soldiers. He’s currently doing research at Oxford University on the use of AI in war. With all the debate around the new documentary, NAZA, I wanted to talk to Avner about the IDF and military culture and methods.
We discuss:
How the filmmakers kept its subjects anonymous
Why the Israeli military ran out of military targets two days into the assault on Gaza
How AI can turn soldiers into rubber stamps
How the Israeli right is using NAZA to attack the Israeli center-left
How Israeli “liberals” participated in the genocide
