“Last week, Alix hosted a live show in Mexico City right after REAL ML. Four panelists tackled a hugely important topic – one that many other conferences have wrongly treated as taboo: the use of AI and other technologies in supporting the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
Here’s a preview of what the four speakers shared:
Karen Palacio AKA kardaver gave us an overview of Operation Condor — a program of psychological warfare that ran in the late 20th century in South America to suppress activist voices.
Marwa Fatafta explains how these methods are still used today against Palestinians; there are coordinated surveillance projects that make Palestinian citizens feel they are living in a panopticon, and the granular data storage and processing is facilitated by AWS, Google, and Azure.
Matt Mahmoudi goes on to describe how these surveillance projects have crystallised into sophisticated CCTV and facial recognition networks through which Palestinians are continuously dehumanised via face-scanning and arbitrary checks that restrict movements.
Wanda Muñez discusses how fully autonomous weapons obviously violate human rights in all kinds of ways — but ‘AI ethics’ frameworks never make any considerations for machines that make life or death decisions.”
You can also find this episode on: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast/ai-i…
