In response to the growing global refugee crisis, wealthy governments like the US and the EU are employing novel AI and surveillance technologies to slow the influx of migrants. The declared goal is to make the process easier and more humane, but immigration lawyer Petra Molnar argues that this rollout doesn’t stop at the border. She discusses with the hosts how these borderlands have become a proving ground for high-risk AI technology gradually trickling into other areas of our lives.
Climate change, political instability, hunger – these are just some of the forces behind an unprecedented refugee crisis that is expected to include over a billion people by 2050.
In this episode of the podcast “Your Undivided Attention,” Molnar, also the co-creator of the Migration and Technology Monitor, discusses how borders have become a proving ground for the sharpest edges of technology, especially AI.
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