The US has spent billions constructing a “digital wall” of surveillance towers alongside its southern border over the previous 25 years, promising they may assist detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. However a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Expertise Evaluation has documented over a thousand individuals who moved by means of areas watched by these towers with out being reached or apprehended, and who in the end died there. Some have been even below the watch of newly put in AI-powered towers designed to identify folks robotically.
Our findings reveal a humanitarian disaster extra seen than beforehand recognized, and repeated failures of the digital wall’s fundamental safety promise. Be a part of MIT Expertise Evaluation editors and reporters for a dialog inspecting the failures of border surveillance know-how and uncovering the tales of the individuals who die within the borderlands.
Audio system: Mat Honan, editor in chief, James O’Donnell, senior AI reporter, and Eileen Guo, senior options and investigations reporter
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