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Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities | A U.S. Border Patrol “Industry Day” deck also asks for drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls
A Customs and Border Protection “Industry Day” deck also asks for drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls.
Become a member The automation desired by Border Patrol seems to lean heavily on computer vision, a form of machine learning that excels at pattern matching to find objects in the desert that resemble people, cars, or other “items of interest,” rather than requiring crews of human agents to monitor camera feeds and other sensors around the clock. Military and intelligence agencies across the world are increasingly working to use forms of machine learning, often large language models like OpenAI’s GPT, to rapidly ingest and analyze varied data sources to find buried trends, threats, and targets — though systemic issues with accuracy remain unsolved. Another page of the document, listing the agency’s “Subterranean Portfolio,” claims CBP is preparing to lay an additional 2,100 miles of fiber optic cable along the northern and southern border in order to detect passing migrants, as part of a sensor network that also includes seismic, laser, visual, and cellular tracking.
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