Amid escalating protests against the Trump administration, particularly in support of Palestine, the U.S. State Department is planning to leverage AI technology to monitor social media activities. This initiative aligns with Marco Rubio's 'Catch and Revoke' plan to potentially revoke visas of foreign nationals deemed problematic. Mahmoud Khalil, a former graduate student, symbolizes increasing government scrutiny as he faces threats to his green card due to his protest activities. Experts caution that using AI in this manner risks compromising privacy rights and might lead to significant inaccuracies in targeting dissenters.
Using AI to try and analyze the contents of people's social media posts for actions that the Trump administration-deems unacceptable is a risky move that runs the risk of creating huge false positives.
For so many years, we have heard this very bad argument that we don't need to worry because we have democracy. Precisely the point of privacy is to keep democracy.
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