Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts.
Evidence
Furthermore, in determining that status, one slips from an epistemology of manifest observation and statements of fact into an epistemology of suspicion in which a targeting decision is based on the identification of behavior or a pattern of life that suggests membership in a hostile organization. For example, your pattern of life might suggest a 70 percent chance that you are a militant, in other words a combatant, and we accordingly have the right to kill you. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 482
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how the drone operative moves between killing fields and coffee breaks, and the epistemic space of lethal surveillance. — connects to: Pattern-of-life strikes kill civilians through unconfirmed behavioral inference; Drones operationalize actuarial risk-based surveillance — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 798; Preemptive drone targeting rests on epistemologically fragile predictions (+14 more)
Related
- Preemptive drone targeting rests on epistemologically fragile predictions (similarity 0.93)
- Preemptive drone strikes rest on fragile and therefore dangerous prediction claims. (similarity 0.90)
- Drone targeting hinged on remote visual guesses about sex and combatant status (similarity 0.90)
- Drone surveillance cannot reliably distinguish combatants from civilians (similarity 0.87)
- Pattern-of-life strikes kill civilians through unconfirmed behavioral inference (similarity 0.85)
- Drones operationalize actuarial risk-based surveillance (similarity 0.85)
- Drone targeting presumes guilt until innocence is proven posthumously. (similarity 0.85)
- Signature strikes kill based on behavior patterns, not confirmed identity (similarity 0.85)
- Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. (similarity 0.85)
- Surveillance can predict civilian behavior from recurring spatial and social patterns (similarity 0.84)
- Most drone strikes target suspects whose identity is unknown at the moment of killing. (similarity 0.84)
- Predictive threat-detection rests on epistemologically fragile assumptions (similarity 0.84)
- Drones produce constant terror because targets never know when they are tracked. (similarity 0.83)
- Activity-based intelligence replaces identity with behavioral templates as targeting basis (similarity 0.83)
- Drones are less precise than rifles and grenades at discriminating targets. (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Predictive threat-detection rests on epistemologically fragile assumptions
#corroborates(0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 198 - Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets.
#expands(0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1016