Not just an armed citizen. A marine corps veteran. This is a conversation many don’t want to have. We yell and scream about black veterans being traitors to their race, baby killers, and “making choices” to serve in a racist white fighting force. But we don’t have much to say when these same men use deadly force in defense of other black people in the public.
These stories happen all the time. The black community needs men who know how to kill and aren’t afraid to fight and die. The average civilian does not have that mindset.
NEW EPISODE ALERT!!!
Tune in at 8 PM EST for Episode 9 of Algorithms of Empire, co-hosted by the Clay-Gilmore Institute, Wise the Dome TV, the Centre for Ethics, and the Algorithmic Bias Project at the University of Toronto. In this episode, we are in conversation with Adam Mahoney and Madeline Thigpen about their recent article for Capital B News on the rise of AI-enabled surveillance of Black communities in Atlanta and the rise of Cop City.
Before AI, police pulled footage when they already suspected you. AI flips it: scan everyone, generate the suspicion. That's not a bug to debias away; the biased judgments of criminality follow from the design and operational deployment of the technology.
In Atlanta, that looks like 60,000+ networked cameras searchable by plain language, plate readers feeding a database shared with ~2,000 agencies, and federal task forces tapping in for immigration enforcement. The cameras cluster thickest in Black neighborhoods — and facial recognition misreads Black faces at many times the rate of white ones. When a system that's wrong that often is built to generate suspicion, the people who pay for it are already the most watched.
As our guests show, mass surveillance and militarized police control of Black people is not new. The same ground that Cop City is being built on — Weelaunee forest, later the Atlanta Prison Farm — has functioned as a laboratory for the management and control of Black and Indigenous people for generations. AI tools are enhancing older pre-emptive approaches to policing non-white populations.
Listen in at 2000/8 PM EST: https://t.co/FUltIzMEyC
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