The whole thing unraveled quickly, according to local reporting. When the alert went out, it triggered an automatic "code red," giving administrators no choice but to react to the AI system's decision. Luckily nobody was hurt, and local police soon declared the lockdown over. "The code red was a precaution and the children were never in any danger," local police wrote in a Facebook post.
For the past few decades, Alex Karp has stayed largely under the radar, but a new biography, reveals him to be a complex, thoughtful, often contradictory personality, with a background that explains many of his insecurities. Steve Rose profiled the fitness-obsessed billionaire tech leader whose business is at the heart of many governments, including the US, where its AI-powered data-analysis technology is fuelling the deportations being carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Pentagon's unmanned drone programme, police departments' (allegedly racist) profiling of potential criminals and much more besides.
In 2025, Trump administration officials-primarily at the Departments of State and Homeland Security-created a mass surveillance program to monitor constitutionally protected speech by noncitizens lawfully present in the U.S. Using AI and other automated technologies, the program has surveilled the social media accounts of visa holders and lawful permanent residents...