US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report

&gt; The effort involves AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders&#x27; social media accounts<p>&gt; We see people marching at our universities and in the streets of our country ... calling for Intifada, celebrating what Hamas has done ... Those people need to go,&quot; Rubio stated.<p>No one want terrorist apologist in their country, but I think everyone can see how it&#x27;s the cursor position that matters. Now you ban terrorist apologist, tomorrow you ban someone who criticized Israel and it&#x27;s human rights violation.<p>I see no difference between the Hamas and an Israeli fanatic who claim the Arabians have no right to live on the sacred soil that God gave them 2 thousand year ago, legitimizing the bombardment of civilians, forced deportations of gaza citizens, illegal Israeli settlements and so on.<p>Yet this is only about one side.<p>I fear this is instead going to be used as a tool to shut freedom of talk when it&#x27;s not supportive of Israel.

Unless they open-source the AI, I assume it&#x27;s just going to revoke visas of students with Arabic names or students with even a modicum of support for Palestinians. Then they can launder that practice by saying an AI did it.

I love how they insist that china is the terrible country that does nothing else, while in the west we have freedom.

Let me say as an international PhD student- I have marched for the freedom of Palestinian people, talk about it, and I won’t allow this Big Brother tactic influence my decision one bit going forward.<p>The US govt can do whatever it damn pleases.

Surely this will not have any unforeseen consequences whatsoever

This is one of the many initiates where the process and details matter. What’s the due process here, can people see the prompt that judges them to be supporters? Is AI just highlighting “supporting” content for human review?<p>Even if you support the idea in principle, the actual practical implementation should be treated with skepticism.

What about those who support Russian invaders?

This bot just scans people&#x27;s social media. I would assume you can just fake someone&#x27;s social media account and get their visa denied. I&#x27;m sure this thing won&#x27;t account for multiple people having the same name. It would also be funny to run this on Elon&#x27;s account and see if he&#x27;d get denied for his thinking emoji replies to antisemites, or to run this on a fake Rubio account where he&#x27;s terribly photoshoped next to Bin Laden.

Land of the free after all

Free speech, I fear, is in retreat.

A detailed and documented research into the provenance of Hamas:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swprs.org&#x2F;why-israel-created-hamas&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swprs.org&#x2F;why-israel-created-hamas&#x2F;</a>

Other issues aside, how does this get around the constitutional right to free speech? There must be some court ruling that lets speech affect the visa process.

[dupe]<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43285384">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43285384</a>

Student visas for Hamas support today, citizenship for criticism of the president tomorrow. Welcome to AI hell.

AI is going to usher in a wonderful world of increased surveillance and authoritarianism. It will be a truly transformative technology, and isn&#x27;t is great that Silicon Valley is working so hard to bring it to us, as hard and fast as possible?

Maga?

Butt hurt that non American got your promotion or lab spot? Queue fake pro hamas social media profiles to remove said competition.

Another example of history repeating itself... 80 years ago, McCarthy and the HUAC were going after alleged communist supporters, now the Trump admin is going after alleged Hamas supporters.<p>Maybe we should all study more of history, with an open mind, instead of assuming that everything is different now and people have never been in a similar situation before.