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Podcast: New Books in Sociology
Episode: Petra Molnar, "The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (New Press, 2024)
Description: In 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it was training ārobot dogsā to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border against migrants. Four-legged machines equipped with cameras and sensors would join a network of drones and automated surveillance towersānicknamed the āsmart wall.ā This is part of a worldwide trend: as more people are displaced by war, economic instability, and a warming planet, more countries are turning to AI-driven technology to āmanageā the influx.Based on years of researching borderlands across the world, lawyer and anthropologistĀ Petra MolnarāsĀ The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Arti...