Robot Dogs and Dystopian Use of AI Surveillance at the Border, w/ Petra Molnar

Petra Molnar is a Harvard Faculty Associate, lawyer, human rights activist, and author of the just-released book The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Publisher’s Weekly gave the book a glowing review and called it a “a grave wake-up call."

To research this book, Petra spent *six years* studying what she called the “sharp edges” of surveillance tech, focusing on how it’s impacting real people.  She spent considerable time at the border and in refugee camps. And she emerged from this research with chilling, dystopian tales of how AI-infused surveillance is being used at the border. Things like…“robot dogs,” which are exactly what they sound like.

We get into what her research has uncovered, what she thinks caused the current state of play, the often over-looked role of defense tech, and what she sees as possible solution.

Whatever your take on this issue, it’s an important conversation she’s raising. Hope you enjoy the episode. 

The Walls Have Eyes:
https://thenewpress.com/books/walls-have-eyes

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