"For the time being, if you or someone on your crew has availability to secure black plastic bags (or something else) over the cameras, that would be great."

Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras

"For the time being, if you or someone on your crew has availability to secure black plastic bags (or something else) over the cameras, that would be great."

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Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.

Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach

Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities

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🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Basic research, lethal effects: Military artificial intelligence research funding as enlistment - David Gray Widder, Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman, 2026

In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorit...

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🔔 EPISODE 254! 🔔 In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Carceral AI is here. It’s time to fight back.” by @dashapruss.bsky.social in @inquest.bsky.social.

"When you hold so much data, you can direct it toward any purpose you choose.” Don't miss the latest from @972mag.bsky.social More confimation that the imperatives of AI development drive mass surveillance & incarceration across Palestine www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

Israel is building a ChatGPT-like tool weaponizing surveillance of Palestinians

The Israeli army is developing an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, accelerating incrimination and arrest.

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Very proud of this timely work with Nedah Nemati. We argue that carceral technologies, such as electronic monitoring, make indiscriminate psychological torture a feature of everyday life – even for people who have not been charged with a crime. www.openglobalrights.org/carceral-tec...

Carceral technology and the normalization of psychological torture

Technological “alternatives” to incarceration extend psychological torture into non-carceral spaces.

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We are excited to launch "A Woman's Place is in a Safe City," a data story on the use of #NirbhayaFunds for digital surveillance in India, in collaboration with @mitdusp.bsky.social Data+Feminism Lab, POV Mumbai @thesafecityapp.bsky.social & 3 anonymised Kolkata-based NGOs. bit.ly/3EvqV3R 🧵Read on:

Chris Gatlin spent 17 months in jail after an AI program incorrectly linked him to a crime. Police coerced the victim into picking Gatlin in a lineup despite the victim's assertions he could not recall his attacker. fox2now.com/news/fox-fil...

Police AI program leads to incorrect ID, wrongful arrest

Chris Gatlin spent 17 months in jail for a crime that an artificial intelligence program said he committed, only to be freed after the prosecutor learned there was no real evidence.

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Biden in 2020: “No business should profit from the suffering of desperate people fleeing violence.” Biden in 2024: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

In not surprising news....OpenAI & Anduril have teamed up for military contracts. The entire military/policing industrial complex is just a cash cow for companies hawking tech with barely any use cases. It doesn't matter what you make, the DOD and PDs will buy it.

OpenAI’s new defense contract completes its military pivot

A new partnership with Anduril, announced today, will deploy AI on the battlefield. It represents an overhaul of the company’s position in just a year.

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Carceral immigration tech is on the rise - like ankle monitors, facial recognition apps, and surveillance watches. Now, investors "openly salivate[] over the potential profits they could see from a Trump immigration regime" -@katyaschwenk.bsky.social @levernews.com www.levernews.com/inside-the-p...

Inside The Plan To Let Trump Track Millions of Immigrants

The private prison lobby has been quietly pushing a drastic expansion of ICE’s surveillance apparatus. Trump’s reelection may be the final step.

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🚨 The Carceral AI report is out! 🚫 Read the recommendations of global activists and researchers to resist technologies designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control human beings. carceral-ai.com Download the pdf on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

begin | Carceral AI

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New - and ever more crucial report - on carceral AI, a growing class of algorithmic and data-driven practices designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control people. Recommendations, report, and beautiful artwork too! www.carceral-ai.com Spearheaded by @dashapruss.bsky.social

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Excited beyond words that this workshop on carceral AI is becoming a reality next week! With Clifton "Skye" Williamson, @meganstevenson.bsky.social, @shakeer.bsky.social, @gabbyj.bsky.social, @pblnns.bsky.social, & @gabbyj.bsky.social. Open to all, in-person. Registration & schedule: bit.ly/3HiVSGE

Thanks @alisabokulich.bsky.social for getting me on here! I’m an interdisciplinary researcher studying the social impacts of carceral AI, a term I use for algorithms implicated in the control and incarceration of people. Just started a dual postdoc at Harvard. Excited to meet other folks on here!