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Beyond AI, Israel Needs ‘Deep Tech’

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What will Israel’s defense industry need to focus on in the future? Everyone in the world seems mesmerized by the mere mention of AI — artificial intelligence. But Merav Davidovitz says it is something else that needs to be the focus of Israeli efforts to prepare for the next war, and the next. More on what he calls “Deep Tech” can be found here: “Israel’s next strategic bet is Deep Tech, not just AI,” by Merav Davidovits, Jerusalem Post, September 

Artificial intelligence has captured the world’s imagination. Start-ups, investors, and policymakers alike are racing to harness the transformative potential of software-driven innovation. But when it comes to Israel’s long-term security, AI alone will not suffice. The kind of technological edge that ensures survival and strategic superiority requires something much harder, slower, and riskier: Deep Tech.

Deep Tech is not about apps or rapid algorithmic upgrades. It is about fundamental scientific and engineering breakthroughs-advances in advanced energy systems, materials science, biotechnology, and space. These innovations take years to mature, demand patient capital, and often involve high technological risk. But they also deliver capabilities that are decisive and enduring, not easily copied or neutralized.

Unlike short-cycle software tools, Deep Tech requires universities, labs, and an entire ecosystem of researchers and engineers working together over decades. This is why countries that want real independence in their defense and industry cannot rely on quick wins alone….

Relying solely on fast, software-driven innovation risks leaving Israel vulnerable to adversaries who copy, adapt, and overwhelm with scale. What they cannot easily replicate are the breakthroughs in energy, materials, biotechnology, and space that come only from sustained Deep Tech investment.

In other words: cheap and fast is not enough. For Israel, the future lies in going deeper, even when it is harder, slower, and riskier.

Deep Tech is not about speed. It is about resilience, sovereignty, and the kind of enduring superiority that no adversary can erode with improvised tactics. For Israel, investing in Deep Tech is not optional. It is the difference between tactical disruption and strategic dominance.

Software may shape the present. But Deep Tech – in energy, materials, biology, and space – will shape the future. And for Israel, the future must be built not by racing faster, but by going deeper.

Did you understand all of that? No, nor did I. But I am left with a feeling of relief that in tiny Israel, whose main hope for survival are the brains of its scientists, the need for “Deep Tech ” is already being discussed, even in the middle of a seven-front war whose outcome will determine whether Israel lives or dies. Israel’s scientists can, and must, go not faster but deeper, “in energy, materials, biology, and space,” if the Jewish state is to retain its military mastery. Faced with a genocidal enemy, Israel has no choice.

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  1. Fortunately, whatever it takes here in this matter Israel is highly likely (actually even more than “highly likely”) to keep ahead of the “competition.” The “competition” being, in effect, the entire Islamic sphere of mankind but especially that collection of the most dysfunctional major people on Earth, i.e., the Arabs.

    Yes, by contrast, even the Latin American world looks like it has its act together compared to the Arabs—and for many reasons, not the least being adherence overwhelmingly to the worst major religion of all time, destructive tribalism, and continued devotion to the wrong kinds of what constitutes true honor (e.g., killing daughters for transgressing religious and cultural norms and yet calling this justified).

    Go Israel. Do what you must. Along with America you are one of the two best hopes for mankind among the polities on this sorry-ass planet.

    • Glad to hear that Israel is concentrating on deep science & tech. They have always made stunning progress with new technology. I remember it was a joke among US defense contractors that if a weapon system had a problem or needed more ability, the Israelis will fix it.

      I think AI will be the next exploding tech bubble like the .com of the 90s when the actual reliable use of AI does not meet the hyped expectations. Then there is a safety issue: Imagine placing the core vulnerability of your business into the invisible “hands” of a virtual employee who is known to fabricate data and, without a frontal cortex, has no foundational morals.

      The “fathers” of these machines admit they don’t know some aspects of how LLM AI works and, of course, there are those who predict that if it grows without human understanding and controls, humans are in for a difficult time. Yet, it is being rushed in all the world’s tech centers.

      Let’s suppose that AI becomes reliable enough to trust and 25% of the US jobs are replaced by it. “Maximizing returns to shareholders”, guarantees the profits will not be shared by the corporations using it, and eventually, the missing 25% of working humans will be unable to purchase products. Is 25% of the population enough to create a revolution?

      • You’re really on to something man. Why? Because just go check the Tel Aviv index. It’s up 700 percent in three years… that’s right 700 pct.

        That appears to be a bubble but who knows.

        Anyway, Israel will need all the home help they can get, because its westerns Allies are falling for propaganda and slowly abandoning them.

        What happens if a radical dem gets in 2028? They must have a plan ready to live in that tough neighborhood.

        • As for the U.S. after Kirk’s assassination not holding onto the MAGA strength and facing that 2028 radical leftist takeover…

          For those Israeli supporters being guilt-tripped about ”unity” … realize this…

          That ‘hate speech’ some want to censor is just leftist media GROOMING their own jihadists.

          There’s research now that uncovered the fact that psychopathic tendencies are MORE FREQUENT in mRNA VAXXED people..
          [Thorp, Drew and Breggin, et al]

          I sure hope the Israelis stopped Vaxxing as soon as their research indicae I was a killer by Jan 2021…. else hopefully this DEEP TECH in BIOLOGY has the answer to the ghastly prospects..

          Now who are the most vaxxed people —those who follow the leftist MSM?

          So those survivors are more inclined to homicide and psychopathy and are GROOMED to carry out the TERROR that the Leftist agenda plans for us all.
          And we do mean ALL OF US.
          TTYL, planning to escape this oligarch-conceived ultimate MKULTRA..UN-Caliphate? whatever……

      • AI seems to have a deeper impact on the economy and our lives than we seem prepared for. Was watching a video of a guy attending Cisco Live, the largest network engineering conference worldwide, and he reported that every exhibit there had something to do w/, or was themed after AI. Currently, I’ve completed a Cybersecurity certification and before that, a more basic network training course. Looking at these trends, I think I’m less inclined to do a major certification course if whatever I learn is quickly going to be automated

        However, one thing that I noticed in the training was a lot of operations being automated, leaving little role for the engineers behind it all. So the key thing would be to look for something that’s less likely to be automated at least in the near term, such as GRC or Forensics

        The plus side of this is that most of the things we’d want in life would be relatively cheap, or at least affordable. The question that does emerge though, is what are the jobs we’re supposed to be doing that would make us the money to afford those things? Before anybody goes into the Mark Cuban mode and says being creative, or artistic, I’ll note that the AI generated music videos that I see these days – complete w/ inline lyrics – is way superior to almost all genres of music we’ve seen this century. Notwithstanding the fact that most people are not the creative type

  2. I may be the only one, but I am not “mesmerized” by ai…..I really don’t like it, resent that it is everywhere and abhor the fact that one can’t just delete it.

    I like to research things, not have some *imitation* brain feed me what it might if I ask a question, or *wonder* about something when I lack information
    Humans know more than machines….even those run by some imitation of intelligence.

    To defeat the terrorists who make use of other’s accomplishments and innovations, Israel needs to do its own thinking and not rely on some *artificial…..pretend….intelligence.*

    For me, I feel the same as someone else who said: ai is like a ouija board. I Don’t use it nor trust it.
    .

    • somehistory,

      To your point, my experimentation with Chat GPT is that it has a left-wing bias similar to Wikipedia.

    • The early political bias of AI (Grok seems to have marginally improved) made me suspicious about AI. Maybe I’m just naive, but one of the goals of AI should be, or at least should have been, to discover objective truths. Instead, it turns out to be as subjective as ever. I have also been underwhelmed by its performance whenever it comes up w/ its “recommendations” – like if I play a certain song, it tells me that if I liked A, then I’ll like L, M & N, even though L, M & N are nothing like A

      I notice a lot of people have used AI for things like writing reports, and that’s really mediocre. B’cos it’s not hard to detect when AI has written something: there are both tools to detect that, and on a human interface, one just has to contrast the way one talks w/ what’s written to figure out who’s actually written it. My sister tells me that ChatGPT has been helpful in generating bureaucratic documents when needed, and maybe that’s an appropriate role for it. But when I do a search on either Google or Bing, in the former, Gemini is heavily used, and in Bing, one has the option of using CoPilot. There have been times when I have received wrong answers from both

      Given all that, and despite (or maybe b’cos of?) being from the tech field, I do not use AI for any serious/real work that I do. Yeah, on @X, I somettimes chat w/ @grok and that is fun, but there needs to be an AI that’s curated to give objective answers. I’ve heard of the Chinese knock-off from ChatGPT – DeepSeek and like that, there is another whose ad I’ve seen – Venice AI. If I get into a situation where I have to use AI, that might be the one I use

      • I test the limits of all of them. If you know one more free than Grok PLEASE let me know.

        But grok is very good. I get it to make pictures that others won’t. Example Gemini and the ultra woke chat gpt won’t do any political pictures.

        While grok will draw almost anything. Trump, Obama, everyone in a funny political incorrect picture

        • Try VeniceAI and let me know how you found it. I myself haven’t tried it as yet, but heard that it’s like DeepSeek but w/o the Chicom propaganda

  3. They need autonomous weapons, so that instead of conscripting humans, they can send AI-enabled armory – tanks, howitzers,… into enemy areas and let them make the determination of who’s a threat. Explode any weaponry of the Palis remotely whenever possible, & completely disarm them

    After that, the Israelis can set about the “Transfer” solution

  4. To anyone interested in the UAP phenomenon, we already know Israel and the US are at the forefront of “Deep Tech”.

  5. Beyond AI, Israel Needs ‘Deep Tech’
    …………………………….

    Israel is tiny, but one of the most technologically advanced nations in the world.

    • I think that is in part, gravenimage, due to the “situation” that Judaism spawned far more independent thought than did Islam. And one does not have to be religious to come to this assertion. For instance me and far better than myself many Jewish agnostics

      After all, religion at its best produces great things like the Torah, Aquinas’s intellectual architecture, Hesiod’s Theogony and Michelangelo’s magnificence in sculpture, painting and architecture. Silly haters of religion, i.e., militant atheists, remain clueless of this timeless truth.

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