A new documentary on Israeli military practices is bad news for accountability, showing how AI-driven targeting led to civilian deaths, including children, while military leaders dismissed the errors.

• A film built on testimony from IDF soldiers describes how an AI system picked targets for strikes, and soldiers knew the system often flagged the wrong person but carried out strikes anyway.
• One soldier describes hearing an infant crying in the background before a strike was still carried out, despite doubt about whether the target was correct.
• Another tactic described in the film involves waiting until a targeted man returns home so his children and family can be killed alongside him.
• Israel's prime minister is reportedly trying to punish the soldiers who took part in making the film, rather than those responsible for the strikes.
• The pattern is compared to historical examples of ordinary people following orders to carry out atrocities once a authoritarian or fascist system normalizes it.

Outlook: Expect continued fallout and censorship attempts around the film, with pressure building for independent scrutiny of AI-assisted targeting practices in the conflict.