April 24th, 2021
If there's one thing the United States military gets right, it's lethality. Yet even once the US military has you in its sights, it may not know who you actually are — such are, these so-called "signature strikes" — even as that wrathful finger of God is called down from upon on high.
As Kate Crawford, Microsoft Research principal and co-founder of the AI Now Institute at NYU, lays out in this fascinating excerpt from her new book,
Atlas of AI, the military-industrial complex is alive and well and now leveraging metadata surveillance scores derived by IBM to decide which home/commute/gender reveal party to drone strike next. And if you think that same insidious technology isn't already trickling down to infest the domestic economy, I have a credit score to sell you.