This presentation will explore the role of Big Tech — companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir — and their provision of technological infrastructure and services to Israel’s military and leading weapons companies. A key focus will be the interaction of militarized surveillance systems and data with AI and cloud computing technology, and how these systems combined enable new forms of autonomous weapons systems for enacting genocide in Gaza/Palestine and elsewhere.
Samer Abdelnour is a senior lecturer based at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. А Palestinian-Canadian, he is currently working on a number of projects at the intersection of technology and violence and research ethics in contexts of violence.