(San Francisco) International amnesty accuses the American authorities of breaking human rights by using artificial intelligence tools (AI) to monitor migrants and pro-Palestinian foreign demonstrators, in a context of mobilization against Israeli bombardments in the Gaza Strip.
“It is very worrying that the American government deploys IA-assisted intrusive technologies as part of a program of massive evictions and repression of expression in favor of Palestine,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Director General of Research in International Amnesty, cited in a statement from the NGO published on the night of Wednesday to Thursday.
The use of these technologies “leads to a multitude of human rights violations,” she said.
The association notably points to IT tools boosted at AI of Babel Street and Palantir companies, specialized in the analysis of large -scale and real -time data, which have many contracts with the American government, especially in the defense and intelligence sectors.
Their X-Babel software and OS immigration, respectively- have automated capacities that allow constant monitoring, monitoring and mass assessment, “said Amnesty.
And according to the NGO, these technologies are used to target foreign students, refugees and asylum seekers “on an unprecedented scale”.
This results in illegal detentions and massive expulsions, creating a climate of fear and exacerbating “the paralyzing effect” on migrants and international students in schools and on university campuses,
Erika Guevara-Rosas, Director General of Research in International Amnesty
Since his return to the White House in January, Donald Trump has embarked on a vast campaign against universities, accusing them in particular of leaving the Palestinian support movements to the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, which he assimilates to anti-Semitism demonstrations.
His administration cut research subsidies to various establishments, arrested and threatened with expulsion from Pro-Palestinian demonstrators, requested the ban on the prestigious Harvard university to receive foreign students and ordered the suspension of their visas to scrutinize their social networks.
Foreign students explained to AFP hesitating to come and study in the United States or fear to approve pro-Palestine or Anti-Trump publications on platforms.
“Babel X would quickly travel through AI social networks looking for” terrorism “content,” notes amnesty. But “the probabilistic technologies used to deductions from the intentions of individuals have important margins of error and are often discriminatory and biased; They can wrongly present pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic content ”.
