Border AI violence and the limits of regulatory oversight

 Border AI violence and the limits of regulatory oversight  by Sarah Fathallah

The increased adoption of AI for border control by the European Union warrants investigating the EU’s flagship regulatory framework, the AI Act, addresses the potential harms of border AI systems. Indeed, these systems require data exploitatively captured from migrants, are often experimented on vulnerable migrant populations, and are designed to predict where migrants are most likely to be intercepted and pushed back. This talk will explore how the EU AI Act fails to confront the violent realities of these systems, drawing on the case of the Morocco–Spain border.

Our guest: Sarah Fathallah (they/any) is a community organizer and a critical AI researcher focused on the carceral impacts of technology. They are currently pursuing an MSt in AI Ethics and Society at the Leverhulme Centre for Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, where they research how artificial intelligence supports the surveillant, experimental, and necropolitical logics of carceral geographies, especially along racialized lines.

ai-skeptics: a speaker series offering a space for critical reflections about the implications of artificial intelligence on research, work, and society

Co-organized by 4 curious ai-skeptics, Bianca Crivellini Eger, Anne-Laure Fayard, Sai Kalvapalle and Sam Ortiz Casillas, faculty members at Nova School of Business and Economics.

An email will be sent to participants the day before with the link to the online event.