@davejorgenson: ICE hired AI bounty hunters. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a company that makes “AI agents” to rapidly track down targets. The company claims the “skip tracing” AI agents help agencies find people of interest and map out their family and other associates more quickly. According to the procurement records, the company’s services were specifically for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), the part of ICE that identifies, arrests, and deports people.  The contract comes as ICE is spending millions of dollars, and plans to spend tens of millions more, on skip tracing services more broadly. The practice involves ICE paying bounty hunters to use digital tools and physically stalk immigrants to verify their addresses, then report that information to ICE so the agency can act. The contractor, AI Solutions 87, claims on its website that its agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.” It says the AI agents map out a target’s “services, locations, friends, family, and associates.” Caption from article by Joseph Cox, 404 Media. Supported by funding from Omidyar Network

davidl6946 :

ICE has more money than most countries. They can't do their job without bounty hunters?

Sminogrigiooooo :

$170 billion for what is essentially trump’s secret police

A :

Dave you have a way of informing me that is entertaining and terrifying

Kas :

Didn’t the terminator go to the wrong house and just kill everyone named Sarah Connor?

saltlifetruckster :

gigikov :

Gosh I feel so FREE guys!

John :

THIS VIDEO IS UNDER REVIEW???

Absolutely not :

I wonder how it identifies potential targets? Like is it scraping social media or something? Could a bunch of citizens pull an “I am Spartacus” and mess up data?

gimpsor :

Ai Server centers have physical locations.

RtotheTC :

what the actual..

Jimmy J Ketchum :

Y’all remeber the clip at a town hall where the guy said this would happen

softysoftmew :

I need all my horrible awful news told to me through an easy going entertaining lens to be palatable. it's the only way I can hear about this stuff 😭

Conor egan :

The thing we need to ask is what are they doing with this information? Who gets it afterwards? Are they building some sort of database on everybody? Who’s ever had contact with a criminal or is related to one. this is scary

Blanche :

LisaGMDHomes :

All that money for ICE...and we can't have universal health care...got it.

CaseKel :

so... tell me again why DOGE needed everyone's information through various gov't databases? im sure its totally not related

CHunter :

aren’t there enough hollywood movies out there showing this is a bad idea 😫😫😫😫

Valley Kid :

I appreciate brining sci-fi stories into this. Sci-fi has ALWAYS been a WARNING to us about what could happen if we stay on our current trajectories. But these days the government is using these stories as instructions.

brokenlens.moto :

We’re cooked. Start standing up now…because they won’t keep us around regardless

S4GU4R0.wtf :

Not having a family has saved me in weird ways more than once

Rosemary Patricia :

Hola amigo saludos

misslisswin :

AI needs to go

Mental Cramps by Libby :

I sure hope Title 13 (regarding Census Bureau data) isn’t being violated.

DottyDotmachine :

Much oversight.... zero oversight. DOGE made sure of that.