The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Petra Molnar, York University & Harvard’s Berkman Join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Mzk1YTYwNDEtODkyZS00N...> Migration is increasingly becoming digitized. From robodogs surveilling the US/Mexico border to drones flying over the Mediterranean Sea to biometrics being collected in refugee camps, untested and high-risk technologies have made their way into virtually every aspect of human movement. States around the world have developed and deployed these experimental projects without public scrutiny or accountability mechanisms, and the current governance and legislative frameworks around border technologies remain inadequate to safeguard people’s human rights. Political discourse around migration control also plays a central part in the normalization of surveillance and artificial intelligence to manage borders. Fears around migration and systematic exclusion of certain communities prevents people-on-the-move from Majority World countries from exercising their freedom of movement and animate the techno-solutionism at the centre of the decisions that powerful actors make to police migration and borders. The private sector is also a major player in normalizing surveillance, profiting in a multi-billion border industrial complex built on testing out new technologies in places like Occupied Palestinian Territories and exporting them out for border enforcement to places like the US/Mexico border and the fringes of the European Union. Based on 6 years of work across various borders around the world, this talk will explore how technologies are experimented with at the border, harming communities who are at the sharpest edges of innovation – and what we can do about it. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02191>Bio: Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in border technologies. She co-runs the Refugee Law Lab at York University and is a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She is the author of the award-winning book The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Subscribe to future talk announcements: Anyone outside Bell Labs can receive talk announcements by subscribing to the mailing list. To subscribe, send an empty email with the subject line "Subscribe RAI" to daniele.quercia@