The UN Hired an AI Company to Untangle the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis

Training artificial intelligence models does not typically involve coming face-to-face with an armed soldier who is pointing a gun at you and shouting at your driver to get out of the car. But the system that F. LeRon Shults and Justin Lane, cofounders of CulturePulse, are developing for the United Nations is not a typical AI model.

“I got pulled over by the [Israeli] military, by a guy holding [a military rifle] because we had a Palestinian taxi driver who drove past a line he wasn’t supposed to,” Shults tells WIRED. “So that was an adventure.”

Shults and Lane were in the West Bank in September, just weeks before Hamas attacked

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