Why human agency is still central to Israel’s AI-powered warfare

The destruction that Israel has ravaged upon Gaza evokes an analog era of warfare. Craters swallow residential complexes, whole streets have been reduced to rubble, and clouds of dust block out the sun. Israel’s military has dropped more explosives on the 124-square-mile enclave than were contained within the atomic bombs that decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. The scale and density of the destruction rivals the most devastating episodes of urban warfare in recent history, from the Blitz of London to decades of counterinsurgency in Vietnam. 

Yet in contrast to those…