Dasha Pruss

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.

"When you hold so much data, you can direct it toward any purpose you choose.”

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More confimation that the imperatives of AI development drive mass surveillance & incarceration across Palestine

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Big thank you to @juanof9.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute!

Carceral technology and the normalization of psychological torture Technological “alternatives” to incarceration extend psychological torture into non-carceral spaces.

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...

A woman’s place is in a safe city: Designing feminist cities through Nirbhaya Funds” by Radhika Radhakrishnan in association with the MIT Data+Feminism Lab. In the backdrop, a train runs between Mumbai and Kolkata, with protesters holding up placards demanding justice and safety for cis-women, trans, and queer persons in both cities.

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:

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.

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...

Screenshot of text about Biden administration extending contracts for private sector immigration jails and expanding detention capacity

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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… @davidthewid.bsky.social Amiya Tiwari, Ly Xīnzhèn Zhǎngsūn, @jasonsexton.bsky.social @pblnns.com and many others who gave us input!

We welcome feedback and hope to spark new conversations and collaborations to resist these harmful technologies. Please do reach out!

A huge thank you to my co-authors @hpullenblasnik.bsky.social @drnikki.bsky.social @shakeer.bsky.social Clara Belitz, Logan Stapleton, Mallika G. Dharmaraj, Mizue Aizeki @petramolnar.com @annikapinch.bsky.social Nathan Ryan, @thallitalima.bsky.social …

This report was collectively written by a group of critical researchers and activists following Prediction and Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI, which I organized in February 2024. Much of the report was sourced from presentations by workshop participants.

We advocate against carceral technologies and urge the public, policymakers, and researchers to be wary of these so-called 'smart', 'evidence-based', or 'data-driven' reforms.

Carceral AI often reinforces or masks existing structural injustices, expands the reach of carceral systems under the guise of scientific rigor, and interacts in complicated ways with existing legal systems, which are ill-prepared to handle the changes introduced by such tech.

Our report covers a range of carceral AI systems, including predictive policing, facial recognition, recidivism risk assessment instruments, automatic license plate readers, border surveillance drones, electronic monitoring, and audio gunshot locators.

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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

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

@wileyprof.bsky.social @center4philsci.bsky.social @petramolnar.bsky.social @hpullenblasnik.bsky.social @sarah-a-riley.bsky.social @drnikki.bsky.social @erincollins.bsky.social

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!