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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Join us for Artificial Reason: A Conversation on AI, Rationality, and Violence on Tuesday, May 5 at 3pm ET. Contributing editor Lily Hu will talk with Kevin T. Baker, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social, & @beenwrekt.bsky.social. To learn more and register, go here: secure.givelively.org/event/boston...

Join us for Artificial Reason: A Conversation on AI, Rationality, and Violence on Tuesday, May 5 at 3pm ET.

BR contributing editor Lily Hu will talk with Kevin T. Baker, Sophia Goodfriend, and Benjamin Recht about the way AI is changing the way societies, individuals, and governments make decisions. The panelists will discuss the nature and meaning of rationality, how new technology is interfacing with old institutions, what popular AI discourses get wrong, and the consequences for politics, war, and social life in general.

Register at https://secure.givelively.org/event/boston-critic-inc/artificial-reason-a-conversation-on-ai-rationality-and-violence

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

For @972mag.com I wrote about how ICE is embracing military targeting apps pioneered by Israel and deployed across Palestine It's the inevitable result years of collaboration between Israel, the US, and tech firms like Palantir www.972mag.com/ice-immigrat...

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ICE operations increasingly resemble Israeli occupation. That’s no coincidence

U.S. immigration enforcement has long cultivated ties with Israel. Now it adapts algorithmic surveillance tactics from Gaza for use on American streets.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

In the last two years, Yuval Abraham @972mag.com brought groundbreaking investigative reporting on war crimes in Gaza. This podcast gives a glimpse into the work behind it - and why you should support it. www.972mag.com/podcast-unco...

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Uncovering the inner workings of an AI genocide

+972's Yuval Abraham takes us inside his investigations into the Gaza war and the legal and moral challenges he faces when reporting.

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

My latest for @972mag.com reveals how Palantir and Dataminr have been involved in hashing out the Trump-backed "peace plan" for Gaza. It's a story of how US surveillance firms are poised to sediment a new paradigm of Israeli control over the strip www.972mag.com/ai-surveilla...

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AI-powered surveillance firms are gunning for a share of Gaza spoils

The presence of Palantir and Dataminr at the new U.S. military compound in Israel offers a glimpse of how tech companies are cashing in on the genocide.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The Trump administration has unfrozen a Biden-era hold on powerful Israeli-made spyware, now in the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social on what the contract portends for escalating strongman rule:

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The Strongman’s Surveillance State - Boston Review

The Trump administration has unfrozen a Biden-era hold on powerful Israeli-made spyware, now in the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

In case you missed it: I wrote about killer slop

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

There's been reports of small drones deployed by Israeli forces across Gaza, but what's most astounding here is the link between American crowd funding efforts to arm Israel's military and the targeting of civilians and civilian areas. From @972mag.com www.972mag.com/drones-grena...

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Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones

Israeli soldiers tell +972 they deliberately target Palestinian civilians with drone strikes so others will ‘learn’ not to return.

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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

A good overview of the thorny implications of the newly enlisted tech execs as reservists by @sklovig.bsky.social with commentary by the excellent @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social and myself.

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I was glad to speak with @sklovig.bsky.social about the militarisation of the US’ AI industry It’s an important look at how Silicon Valley is working with the Trump admin to turbocharge AI weapons development

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The Christian pilgrims, stranded in Tel Aviv, have gone rogue

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Tel Aviv and its surroundings this morning

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Was a pleasure to speak with Akela and Chris last week. Thanks to @theintercept.com for hosting this deep dive into the Trump administration's surveillance dragnet

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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

NEW 🎧: It’s the heyday of surveillance capitalism. Attacks on immigrants & pro-Palestine voices have become one under a massive warrantless dragnet — with lessons taken straight from Israel. W/ @chrisgelardi.bsky.social & @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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How Student Protesters and Immigrants Became Targets of Trump’s Surveillance Tech

Podcast Episode · The Intercept Briefing · 05/30/2025 · 41m

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Required reading for my friends out there also studying immigration right now. Also highly recommend the recent @theintercept.com podcast episode with @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social and @chrisgelardi.bsky.social talking about this and more

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Looking forward to this conversation on Wednesday, tune in online at 2 PM CET, 8 AM EST

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The Trump administration has unleashed a massive domestic surveillance apparatus, thanks to AI systems supplied by major tech firms I wrote about its origins and impact on the ground for @dissentmag.bsky.social and the @theintercept.com www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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The AI Dragnet - Dissent Magazine

The U.S. government is activating a suite of algorithmic surveillance tools, developed in concert with major tech companies, to monitor and criminalize immigrants’ speech.

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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The U.S. government is activating a suite of algorithmic surveillance tools, developed in concert with major tech companies, to monitor and criminalize immigrants’ speech. By @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social, published in collaboration with @theintercept.com: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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The AI Dragnet - Dissent Magazine

The U.S. government is activating a suite of algorithmic surveillance tools, developed in concert with major tech companies, to monitor and criminalize immigrants’ speech.

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"When you hold so much data, you can direct it toward any purpose you choose.” Don't miss the latest from @972mag.bsky.social More confimation that the imperatives of AI development drive mass surveillance & incarceration across Palestine www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

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Israel is building a ChatGPT-like tool weaponizing surveillance of Palestinians

The Israeli army is developing an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, accelerating incrimination and arrest.

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Important reporting from @972mag.bsky.social Lacking precise intelligence, Israeli troops used bunker-buster bombs & toxic gas to destroy Hamas tunnels despite danger to hostages and civilians. “[the army] said let’s just blow everything up and create destruction” www.972mag.com/tunnels-hama...

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Bomb the area, gas the tunnels: Israel’s war on Gaza’s underground

The Israeli army decimated entire residential blocks with bunker-buster bombs to crush the passages below and flood them with lethal fumes.

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 05/02/2025

I'm in the @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com this morning asking: Who exactly is running the federal government? If we can’t answer that simple question, government officials and civil society must recognize warning signs of state capture and take back what's ours. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/02/2025

‘In exchange for technology and expertise, the Israeli army offered companies it worked with access to an unlimited supply of data. Many of the deals contravened Silicon Valley’s doveish mission statements and human rights policies.’ @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

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Sophia Goodfriend | Militarised AI

Last week, a trove of leaked documents offered a glimpse into the role that large technology companies have played in...

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 28/01/2025

At @lawfare.bsky.social, our searchable table of legal challenges to Trump's executive orders is filling up quickly. Please DM me if we're missing litigation on EOs within our bailiwick. A little crowdsourcing can go a long way. Link here: www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Last week, a series of leaked documents revealed tech companies' instrumental war in Israel's war efforts I wrote a brief response for the @LRB blog: on Gaza, Silicon Valley, and militarized AI. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

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Sophia Goodfriend | Militarised AI

Last week, a trove of leaked documents offered a glimpse into the role that large technology companies have played in...

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

It's been a big week for news of big tech's role in Israeli war efforts According to @972mag.bsky.social Microsoft developers became so embedded in Israeli intel units they were referred to as “people who are already working with the unit,” as if they were soldiers www.972mag.com/microsoft-az...

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Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

Since Oct. 7, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s staff embed with different units to support rollout, a join...

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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

New year, new article! I am so delighted to see my piece on venture capital logics, military AI companies and their impact on shaping military norms out with @finandsoc.bsky.social. Open access! #civmilsky #milsky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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From blitzkrieg to blitzscaling: Assessing the impact of venture capital dynamics on military norms | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core

From blitzkrieg to blitzscaling: Assessing the impact of venture capital dynamics on military norms

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Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Gaza University publishes a call for volunteers to teach remotely. All of Gazas twelve universities have been destroyed or badly damaged through Israeli air strikes or controlled demolitions www.facebook.com/share/p/19f8...

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The NYTimes finally published an investigation on the Israeli army’s use of AI systems in Gaza. It’s an important overview of how military heads ordered soldiers to scale up the army’s killing capacities in direct contradiction of international law www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

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Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians

Surprised by Oct. 7 and fearful of another attack, Israel weakened safeguards meant to protect noncombatants, allowing officers to endanger up to 20 people in each airstrike. One of the deadliest bomb...

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Such an absolutely brilliant piece hammering home that the purpose of a system is what it does.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I’m writing a book conclusion that’s also a tiptoe into a new research project, and this review is the first time in a long time that I’ve read something about automated war and realized my head was just nodding up and down the whole time. Thanks @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social for the rec!

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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Two reading recommendations for today: first, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social with a book review which makes some very incisive points on the tech sector's recent incursion into security and military matters here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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The New Old Warfare - Boston Review

The self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

“Tech founders now sound like military strategists, promising that unfettered innovation will deliver geopolitical domination.” @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social on the self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel:

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The New Old Warfare - Boston Review

The self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel.

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Excited to be part of this excellent line-up of speakers. Tune in today, in Munich and online I'll be speaking about cultural and political shifts in Israel that set the stage for AI-targeting in Gaza More here: generativemedia.net/event/dronom...

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Dronomation

Post-Civil Drones and Artificial ‚Intelligence‘ in War Zones December 3, 2024, on-line, 12.00–20.00 CET Zoom Link Conference Registration [external link], you'll receive a link via email ...

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

@sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social provides an ethnographic account of how young Palestinian Jerusalemites made use of digital platforms in the summer & fall of 2021 to draw attention to settler violence in their city in spite of intrusive Israeli state surveillance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Algorithmic Dissent: Militarized Platforms and Palestinian Political Imagination in Jerusalem

This article provides an ethnographic account of how young Palestinian Jerusalemites responded to Israeli state surveillance during the summer and fall of 2021. Threading between interviews with so...

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Withholding government advertising was one of the most powerful weapons in Viktor Orbán's arsenal when he set about dismantling the Hungarian free press www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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Israeli government orders officials to boycott left-leaning paper Haaretz

Ministers also ban government advertising from critical newspaper that is widely respected internationally

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It was a pleasure to sit down for this interview with Civicus last week It's an important conversation about AI ethics, a consolidating military industrial complex, and what civil society can do to safeguard human rights lens.civicus.org/interview/ai...

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‘AI-powered weapons depersonalise the violence, making it easier for the military to approve more destruction’

CIVICUS discusses the dangers arising from military uses of artificial intelligence (AI) with Sophia Goodfriend, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative.

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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Recently in Document Journal by @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social: "AI systems deployed in Gaza are the apotheosis of a process set in motion in the mid-20th century, when early cyberneticians built up surveillance databases & rudimentary targeting systems for the US’ Department of Defense."

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The Israeli military and tech industry collaborate on user-friendly software tools that automate war and occupation

For Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, Sophia Goodfriend examines the dark side of big data in Palestine

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Glad to be featured in this excellent collection of thinkers on AI Essential reading as Silicon Valley's new war mongers assume even more power

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A very good read How the terms of decolonial critique used by academics on the left can bolster an ultra-right intent on racism and dehumanization link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

10 years ago Musk warned AI weapons would "delete humans like spam" now he's one of the loudest champions of military contracting, framing it as the ultimate test of patriotism for Silicon Valley For more on Trump and Silicon Valley's realignment dig into: theintercept.com/2024/11/17/t...

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Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class”

With Trump’s election, Silicon Valley has successfully rebranded military contracting as a proud national duty for the industry.

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Indictments against Palestinian social media users have exploded since the 7th. This is an essential dive into Israel's mechanics of control: “the minute you share something, it’s the same as if you’ve created...you’ve taken ownership of the...

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

I wrote about the May 2021 Uprising in Jerusalem and the limits of algorithmic surveillance for @PalStudies You can read it open access here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3UXHZ7SA…

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

My latest for the @LRB dives into the roots of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in Gaza It's a story about a military obsessed with building its killing capacities to scale, to the detriment of regional security www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n19/sop…

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Sophia Goodfriend · Kill Lists

The IDF’s AI-assisted systems allow the military to bypas...

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

I wrote about the Israeli government's aims of endless war for @972mag Beneath displays of technological dominance is a regime that has subordinated security to dreams of expansion and annexation www.972mag.com/lebanon-war-israeli-…

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For Israel’s weary army, war in Lebanon is an attempt to ...

Dystopian displays of technological prowess serve to dist...

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