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The scientist and the AI-assisted, remote-control killing machine

By Ronen Bergman and Farnaz Fassihi
New York Times·
20 mins to read
The scientist and the AI-assisted, remote-control killing machine
The scientist and the AI-assisted, remote-control killing machine

Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran's top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present.

Iran's top nuclear scientist woke up an hour before dawn, as he did most days, to study Islamic philosophy before his day began.

That

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