Canada should be cautious about adopting automated systems at its borders that can affect decision-making around things like immigration and refugee applications, write Petra Molnar and Jamie Liew.
Authoritarian Tech Is On the Rise | Opinion Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
, journalist On 4/28/21 at 8:00 AM EDT
Life in a refugee camp is an unimaginable horror.
It s the reality of thousands of people who fled war-torn countries, poverty, hunger and sometimes death. Greek refugee camps are often overpopulated, with scarce access to water, heat, food, or toilets, set up over contaminated soil. They are the closest thing to hell on Earth.
The pandemic worsened camps on several fronts. There has been a serious uptick in surveillance technologies administered to refugees since the pandemic started. Not only are refugees detained in inhumane conditions, but they are also subjected to strict surveillance inside and outside the camps, serving as guinea pigs for authoritarian technologies that are then used on the general population.
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Europe is trying to take the lead in regulating the use of AI
Within two years, if everything is planned, EU residents will be protected by law from some of the most controversial uses of AI, such as street cameras that identify and track people or government computers that track individual behavior.
This week, Brussels he defined the plans becoming the first global bloc with rules on how to use artificial intelligence, trying to put European values at the center of rapidly developing technology.
Over the past decade, AI has become a strategic priority for countries around the world, and two leaders around the world – the US and China – have taken very different perspectives.
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