Critics of surveillance, datafication and AI are often accused of being alarmist and even hysterical in pointing out the potential for supposedly benign systems to be used in malign and expansive ways. But we’re seeing now how dangerous it was for those critiques to be dismissed.
A warning to all AI researchers: "The data analytic tools now being used to scour [students'] social media were enhanced during the Biden administration...But to use them to search social media of nonviolent students, the official said, is different from what the previous administration intended."

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