The Machine Shows the Victims, But Hides Who Caused the Suffering
How AI can describe war, sanctions, and censorship while quietly removing responsibility from the sentence
AI does not need to deny suffering to change how people understand a conflict.
That is the problem.
A machine can say that civilians were killed.
It can say that homes were destroyed.
It can say that hospitals were damaged.
It can say that medicine became scarce.
It can say that posts were removed from a platform.
And still, the most important question may disappear:
Who did it?
This is the central idea of my new paper:
Suffering Without Perpetrators: The Humanitarian Passive in AI-Generated Conflict Discourse
Palestine, Iran, and the Syntax of Responsibility Loss
The paper introduces a concept I call the humanitarian passive.
The idea is simple:
AI can make suffering visible while making responsibility grammatically optional.
That means the victim remains in the sentence, but the responsible actor disappears.
The trick...
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