Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
MIT Technology Review documents over a thousand deaths in areas watched by US border surveillance towers, including AI systems.
MIT Technology Review hosted a roundtable on its investigation of the US “virtual wall” of border surveillance towers. The reporting documents more than a thousand people who passed through tower-watched areas, were not reached or apprehended, and later died, including near newer AI-powered towers meant to detect people automatically. Speakers were editor in chief Mat Honan and reporters James O'Donnell and Eileen Guo.
- The US spent billions on southern-border surveillance towers over 25 years.
- Investigators documented over one thousand deaths in areas watched by those towers.
- Some people died under newly installed AI-powered detection towers.
- A roundtable with MIT Technology Review reporters examines the surveillance failures.
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Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented over a thousand people who…
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