Watch a subscriber-only conversation examining the failures of border surveillance technology.
The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But agroundbreaking investigation byMIT Technology Reviewhas documented over a thousand people who moved through areas watched by these towers without being reached or apprehended, and who ultimately died there. Some were even under the watch of n…
Our findings reveal a humanitarian crisis more visible than previously known, and repeated failures of the virtual wall’s basic security promise. Watch a conversation examining the failures of border surveillance technology and uncovering the stories of the people who die in the borderlands.
Speakers:Mat Honan, editor in chief,James O’Donnell, senior AI reporter, andEileen Guo, senior features and investigations reporter
It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn’t, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft’s navigation system.
AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems.