Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Jul 19, 2026
Monsters by the Walls
The big titilating news the other day was an announcement by Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, in coordination with Minister of Environmental Protection Idit Silman, that he intends to open a facility like Alligator Alcatraz which will be a prison for terrorists surrounded by a moat that will be populated with alligators (or maybe crocodiles?) to ensure the prisoners stay put.
Interestingly, the original Alligator Alcatraz did not have a moat with alligators but it was located the Everglades of Florida where alligators are commonly found in the wild. More interestingly, it did not work and Alligator Alcatraz, the original, was shut down.
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| I created this image via AI. I am not aware of any actual upcoming television series on this theme, though maybe the television producers can be talked into another season of Prison Break... |
In Israel this is not really even allowed. The plan was going to be to get the alligators (crocs?) from the Chamat Gader resort and relocate them to the Ketziot prison in Southern Israel. The National Parks and Nature Authority said they will not relocate the gators as the gators can only be used in Israel for research and education. To cricumvent that Silman signed an order changing the classification of the alligators (crocodiles?) to something like "managed wild animals for security needs" so the Nature Authority's objection would be moot and they could then be put in the moat.
Is it feasible or not? Plenty of discussion on the Internet about that. Maybe it is too expensive as the gators need to be cared for and fed, given medical care and whatever else gators require? Maybe they are not even effective at stopping prison breaks - gators sleep a lot and don't need to eat much (but no, I would not want to swim across a moat populated with possibly hungry gators). I don't know the answers to the big debates about this, but I do have one question I have not seen discussed at all.....
How common is it for terrorists or other "security prisoners" to escape from prisons in Israel that an alligator moat might even be effective and worthwhile? How common are prison escapes in general, even by regular criminals and not terrorists?
How necessary is it really, and if it gets done will it even accomplish anything that is not already being accomplished by normal security measures? Is there truly any purpose of it for anything more than some "likes" on social media, and some articles in the press that will excite some people before elections?
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Feb 1, 2026
Halacha Headlines: 1/31/26 – Shiur 546 – The Ban on AI – Why was it banned? | Will Artifical Intelligence ever replace Rabbonim? When perfected will you be able to rely on AI for Psak? (audio)
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Sep 20, 2023
Interesting Psak: AI making haredi women obsolete
In recent years it has become popular for Haredi seminary students to learn programming for a future career in which they can better support their learning husbands, rather than the old style studies of teachers certificates and accounting.
The recent advent of Artificial Intelligence seems to have some worried about their future parnasa capabilities. Parents of a Haredi seminary student asked Rav Yitzchak Zilbershtein, rav of Ramat Elchonon neighborhood of Bnei Braq, if their daughter should change fields and study something else as programming very well might become obsolete as AI itself will do do a lot of the programming at a higher level than trained programmers. While programmers will still be needed, the concern is that specifically the Haredi women will be the first to lose their jobs and be replaced by AI because of being late tot he game and being less trained and less experienced overall (individuals might be different, but as a whole this is the concern). The cost of the studies is high and if their field will go away, perhaps they should train in other studies?
According to Kikar, Rav Zilbershtein responded that proof of God is that we still have workers in every type of work in the world at all different levels, and everyone loves his (or her) work and goes to work happily.
Before continuing I would just personally point out that plenty of people do not love their work and plenty of people go to work less than happy. But they do still go to work and perform as they must because they need to pay the mortgage and bring home the facon.
Back to the response of Rav Zilbershtein...
Rav Zilbershtein says the reason for this is that for the sustenance of the world this is necessary to have all this work done and for all the people to have their parnassa - there are people who have to collect the garbage and others who fix the sewage systems, etc. so during creation God gave out the different attributes to different people for the tasks they would later accomplish, along with the pull to those fields.
If everybody wanted to work in only a specific field because it earns more or is more respectable, or is easy or whatnot, the world would not last as many other jobs would just not get done as nobody would want to do them.
Therefore, Rav Zilbershtein said, there is nothing to worry about. It is possible AI might make many positions redundant but God will not abandon the world and nobody will be left without parnassa. If the student has a pull to the field of programming and sees that as her calling, that means God has given her those attributes and direction and He wont leave her without parnassa.
Even though it is true that sometimes some fields become obsolete, but God provides for those workers by sending other jobs and opportunities, so even if AI makes some fields obsolete, there will be others ceated, and everyone will have parnassa.
God controls the world and makes sure everything runs well. We just have to worry about sustaining the world through our Torah and mitzvos. Leave the rest to God running the world better than anyone else can.
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Sep 18, 2023
full discussion on AI with Elon Musk and PM Benjamin Netanyahu (video)
LIVE: Speaking with @elonmusk about how we can harness the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI for the good of civilization. https://t.co/XiAQwOXzcP
— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) September 18, 2023
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Aug 3, 2023
[Eli Herzlich - Marsh Chevron [Clip AI] (video)
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Jul 17, 2023
BALAGAN "The office" - Episode 3 Season 1 (video)
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Jul 9, 2023
Halacha Headlines: 7/8/23 – Shiur 426 – After the BAN – Revisiting AI (audio)
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BALAGAN "The office" - Episode 2 Season 1 (video)
I guess it is pretty clear now where this is going... and pretty ironic/timely considering the next post...
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Jun 12, 2023
Halacha Headlines: 6/10/23 – Shiur 422 – Can AI Pasken ? Will Artificial Intelligence ever replace Rabbonim? (audio)
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