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Border Industry Peddles Robot Dogs and AI Surveillance Amid End of Title 42
Blocks from a migrant camp in El Paso, execs at the Border Security Expo hawked dystopian tech designed to repress them.
Israel Is Using a Vast Network of Biometric Cameras to Terrorize Palestinians
The facial recognition surveillance system violates Palestinians’ human rights to freedom of movement and privacy.
Report on ChatGPT Model’s Emissions Offers Rare Glimpse of AI’s Climate Impacts
If AI is scaled up, the resulting carbon footprint could rival that of cryptocurrencies.
BuzzFeed’s AI-Produced Content Experiment Is a Glimpse Into a Bleak Future
We can expect a media universe where a shrinking labor force is exploited to feed ChatGPT so it can churn out clickbait.
Labor and Education Activists Must Challenge Private Tech Takeover of Schools
It's time we pushed back against the industry premise that education's purpose is to prepare workers for the job market.
Canada’s Predictive Policing Tech Is Poorly Regulated Under AI Policy
As surveillance has become a fact of life, digital privacy must become a human right.
Customs and Border Protection Plans Vast Expansion of Tech-Based Surveillance
The project, which involves drones and surveillance towers, clashes with Biden's sunny rhetoric on immigration.
New Technologies Should Be Regulated by Government — Not by Those Who Profit
Efforts to revive Congress’s Office of Technology Assessment have been renewed to assess and control new technologies.
Worker Surveillance Is on the Rise, and Has Its Roots in Centuries of Racism
High-tech corporate monitoring of workers today stems from the legacy of tracking enslaved workers in the 18th century.
AI Algorithms Intended to Catch Welfare Fraud Often Punish the Poor Instead
These tools are often built on the assumption that fraud among the poor is endemic. In fact, it is rare.