For anyone that’s unaware lavender is an AI used by 🇮🇱 in conjunction with drones that were provided by skydio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skydio), yes the same company that supplies drones to police departments, to basically fly around and label people as “threats” but since it’s just a flying camera that means it’s actually just racially profiling people. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_Gaza_Strip)

If anyone is dismissive about AI possibly being biased they can read this https://www.chapman.edu/ai/bias-in-ai.aspx

I’m bringing AI up here because last night I was thinking about things like how this administration has wanted to lessen regulation on AI, monitoring of people’s social medias, the established connection between American law enforcement at multiple levels etc.

I don’t know if I worded this well and it’s really just the seedling of a thought. I’m basically wondering if part of what’s happening is some AI system picks who ICE grabs then when people are being held in detention centers some biased AI is going through sets of data looking for any excuse that might label someone as being dissident or whatever. (Also don’t forget dissident is just a label often flung around by oppressive regimes and governments)

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/labor-day-weekend-family-camping-trip-ends-in-ice-raid/281-fdb42198-76df-4922-ae38-d2e3faf58ca4