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Ep. 01
What happens when artificial intelligence becomes deeply embedded in the machinery of war? NAZA, a documentary by award-winning filmmakers Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham, investigates the use of AI-assisted systems in Israel’s military operations in Gaza. Based on anonymous testimonies from 24 Israeli intelligence insiders, the film examines a targeting process in which algorithms and digital systems can help identify suspected militants while estimating the number of civilians likely to be killed in an attack. The documentary focuses not only on the technology, but on the people behind it: intelligence personnel and other middle-class professionals whose work contributes to decisions with potentially devastating consequences. It explores how technological systems, bureaucratic procedures, and psychological distance can transform civilian casualties into calculated variables within an industrialized process of warfare. The Israeli military has rejected the film’s allegations. Nevertheless, NAZA raises broader questions that extend beyond any single conflict: What happens to human judgment when machines increasingly mediate decisions about life and death? And how does a society normalize the human consequences of technologically enabled warfare?