Articles by Eileen Guo
A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program
Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has announced a plan to introduce new legislation to terminate the surveillance tower program along the US southern border. The announcement comes just days after publication of an MIT Technology Review investigation, “Dying on Camera,” in which we looked at deaths along the border that took place close to one or more of these towers.
A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program
8 hours ago The Trump administration is leaning into national security arguments to remake parts of Washington in line with the president’s fancy and to create a buffer around him. Either the administration is legitimately worried about armed invasion, nervous about an attack at a time when the president has …
Reportaje especial: Estados Unidos gastó miles de millones en vigilancia fronteriza. ¿Por qué no pueden detectar a las personas antes de morir?
Vigilia por Graciela Asunción Gómez Hernández, quien murió detrás de las cruces en una zona de la frontera cercana a Tijuana, el miércoles 16 de septiembre de 2026, en San Diego, California. (Fotografía de Annie Barker/Stocktonia/CatchLight Local/Report for America). Cuando José Morales Bernal cruzó la frontera hacia Estados Unidos el 8 de abril de 2024, un día antes de cumplir 32 años, debió haberse activado una cadena de alertas tecnológicas y respuestas humanas.
Mesas redondas: Los letales fracasos del muro fronterizo virtual
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Mesas Redondas: Los fracasos mortales del muro fronterizo virtual
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The U.S. spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it should have triggered a chain of technological alerts and human responses. As he walked through the desert in southern New Mexico that morning, he was within range of three surveillance towers. Newly installed by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), they were built by the defense tech company Anduril and equipped with cameras and AI to automatically detect and track people.
Lawfare Daily: Eileen Guo on Whether “the Censorship-Industrial Complex” Actually Exists
Michael Feinberg is a former Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he spent the overwhelming majority of his career combatting the PRC’s intelligence services. He is a recipient and multiple times nominee of the FBI’s highest recognition, the Director’s Award for Excellence, as well as numerous other Bureau honors and ODNI commendations. Prior to his service with the FBI, he was an attorney in both private and public practice.
Was OpenAI, Antropic und Google nicht verraten: Analyse-Plattform erstellt detailliertere KI-Nutzung
Technologie 2 hours ago Rätsel um Ox Alpha: Neues KI-Modell ist gratis verfügbar – aber wer hat es veröffentlicht? t3n.de - Marvin Fuhrmann • 2h Das neue KI-Modell Ox Alpha bietet seinen Zugang gratis und fast ohne Beschränkungen an. Doch nicht allein das sorgt für Aufsehen bei den User:innen. … 3 hours ago So dreist wurde ich manipuliert Golem.de - Andrea Maurer • 3h Als ITler nehme ich mich als gut informiert und schwer manipulierbar wahr.
Ainda não sabemos como as pessoas estão realmente usando a Inteligência Artificial
Empresas de Inteligência Artificial, como Anthropic e OpenAI, publicam regularmente relatórios sobre como as pessoas estão usando produtos como Claude e ChatGPT, mas divulgam apenas os dados que querem que vejamos, afirmam pesquisadores de IA.
Analyse von mehr als 24.000 Chats: Diese Plattform will zeigen, was KI-Firmen nicht verraten
Digital 7 hours ago Drei Claude-Agenten auf einem Projekt: Warum manche kooperieren und andere eskalieren t3n.de - Noëlle Bölling • 7h Forscher:innen von Anthropic haben mehrere Agenten auf dasselbe Projekt angesetzt – allerdings mit unterschiedlichen Anweisungen. Ihre Studie zeigt … Künstliche Intelligenz 9 hours ago Tool entfernt KI-Wasserzeichen mit KI Golem.de - Johannes Hiltscher • 9h Anthropics neue KI-Wasserzeichen stoßen auf Widerstand.
We still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a computer science PhD candidate at the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research Lab. Reuel is co-lead of a new research project, called the AI Observatory, that aims to fill the gap.
We still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a computer science PhD candidate at the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research (STAIR) Lab. Reuel is co-lead of a new research project, called the AI Observatory, that aims to fill the gap.
We still don’t know how people are really using AI
Money (India) Now ISM outlay faces currency pressure; ETSA 2026 Best on Campus, Comeback Kid nominees Indiatimes - ETtech • 31m A weak rupee has impacted the dollar value of the India Semiconductor Mission. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5. Also in the letter: ■ Pharmeasy … Technology 18 hours ago I built an AI C-suite to help me run my small business. As a creative, I was hesitant to use AI, but it's helpful for certain things.
Como ideias sobre uma vasta rede de censura saíram das margens da Internet e chegaram à política de Trump
Certa manhã de abril de 2025, funcionários de um pequeno escritório do Departamento de Estado dos Estados Unidos receberam o e-mail que muitos deles vinham temendo. Havia meses, o Departamento de Eficiência Governamental de Elon Musk vinha promovendo cortes abrangentes nas agências federais, desmantelando equipes que trabalhavam com tudo, de pesquisa científica a Previdência Social e ajuda internacional.
How the “censorship-industrial complex” is changing the internet and US policy
I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025. That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which focused on monitoring and countering foreign disinformation from the likes of Russia, Iran, and China, was facing imminent shutdown—the next day. And the reason?
How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading. For months, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had been cutting a wide swath through federal agencies, gutting teams that worked on everything from scientific research to Social Security to international aid.
Pesquisadores de tecnologia processam a administração Trump pelo futuro da segurança online
Desde os primeiros dias de volta ao cargo, a administração Trump tem perseguido pesquisadores que estudam e tentam combater discurso de ódio, assédio, propaganda e desinformação online. Agora, alguns desses pesquisadores estão reagindo. Na semana passada, o processo, que pode ter repercussões globais para a segurança online e a liberdade de expressão, apareceu pela primeira vez em tribunal.
Chatbots de IA estão divulgando números de telefone particulares
Um usuário do Reddit escreveu, recentemente, que estava “desesperado por ajuda”: há cerca de um mês, seu telefone vinha sendo inundado por ligações de “estranhos” que estavam “procurando um advogado, um designer de produto, um chaveiro”. As pessoas que ligavam teriam sido direcionadas de forma equivocada pela IA generativa do Google.
Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety
Since its earliest days back in office, the Trump administration has been going after researchers who study and try to counter hate speech, harassment, propaganda, and disinformation online. Now, some of those researchers are fighting back. Their lawsuit—which could have global repercussions for online safety and free speech—recently made its first appearance in court.
Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety
Since its earliest days back in office, the Trump administration has been going after researchers who study and try to counter hate speech, harassment, propaganda, and disinformation online. Now, some of those researchers are fighting back. Last week their lawsuit—which could have global repercussions for online safety and free speech—made its first appearance in court.
AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers
A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawyer, a product designer, a locksmith.” Callers were apparently misdirected by Google’s generative AI. In March, a software developer in Israel was contacted on WhatsApp after Google’s chatbot Gemini provided incorrect customer service instructions that included his number.
AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers
11 hours ago Smartphones can be distracting with their dizzying array of apps and constant stream of notifications. A new app called Poppy aims to organize the chaos by combining your calendar, email, messages and other sources into a single dashboard. The idea, per the company’s website, is that “Poppy pays …
Como é ser banido por combater o ódio online
Era o começo da noite em Berlim, apenas um dia antes da véspera de Natal, quando Josephine Ballon recebeu um e-mail inesperado da Alfândega e Proteção de Fronteiras dos Estados Unidos. O status da sua capacidade de viajar para os Estados Unidos havia mudado, ela não poderia mais entrar no país. No começo, ela não conseguiu encontrar nenhuma informação online sobre o motivo, embora tivesse suas suspeitas.
Defender a víctimas de acoso digital: un nuevo motivo para prohibir la entrada a EE UU
Era primera hora de la tarde en Berlín, a solo un día de Nochebuena, cuando Josephine Ballon recibió un correo inesperado de la oficina de US Customs and Border Protection. El mensaje informaba de que había cambiado el estado de su autorización para viajar a EE UU. Ya no podría entrar en el país. En un primer momento no encontró ninguna explicación en internet, aunque tenía sus sospechas.
What it’s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate
It was early evening in Berlin, just a day before Christmas Eve, when Josephine Ballon got an unexpected email from US Customs and Border Protection. The status of her ability to travel to the United States had changed—she’d no longer be able to enter the country. At first, she couldn’t find any information online as to why, though she had her suspicions. She was one of the directors of HateAid, a small German nonprofit founded to support the victims of online harassment and violence.
What it’s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate
2 hours ago Perhaps reminded that Martin Luther King Jr. Day was fast approaching, President Donald Trump said he believed Civil Rights-era protections resulted in White people being 'very badly treated.' Way back in December of 2025, thousands of White people roasted JD Vance, the first Ohio resident to ever …
Inside the decades-long fight over Yahoo’s misdeeds in China
When you think of Big Tech these days, Yahoo is probably not top of mind. But for a 62-year-old Chinese dissident named Xu Wanping, the company still looms large—and has for nearly two decades. In 2005, Xu was arrested for signing online petitions relating to anti-Japanese protests. He didn’t use his real name, but he did use his Yahoo email address. At the time, Yahoo was among Silicon Valley’s largest and most influential technology companies.
The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy
Even if you don’t have an AI friend yourself, you probably know someone who does. A recent study found that one of the top uses of generative AI is companionship: On platforms like Character.AI, Replika, or Meta AI, people can create personalized chatbots to pose as the ideal friend, romantic partner, parent, therapist, or any other persona they can dream up. It’s wild how easily people say these relationships can develop.
The State of AI: don’t share your secrets with a chatbot
Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review.
The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy
9 hours ago Key Takeaways AI is accelerating white-collar job reductions, especially in data-driven roles like software development, customer support and finance. • AI is likely both a cause and accelerator of job losses. Companies use AI not only to automate tasks but also as a justification for streamlining …
EUA derrubam rastreador de batidas da imigração
O People over Papers, um projeto colaborativo que mapeava avistamentos de agentes de imigração dos Estados Unidos, foi retirado do ar ontem pelo Padlet, a plataforma de murais colaborativos onde havia sido criado. É apenas a mais recente iniciativa de rastreamento do ICE (Polícia de Imigração e Alfândega dos EUA) a ser removida por plataformas de tecnologia nos últimos dias.
El ICE persigue a las webs que avisan de redadas de los agentes de inmigración en EE UU
People over Papers, un proyecto colaborativo que localiza controles de agentes antiinmigración en EE UU, fue retirado ayer por Padlet, la plataforma donde estaba alojado. Es la última iniciativa de plataformas digitales que ha sido eliminada en los últimos días por el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) en sus actividades de seguimiento.
Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline
People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days. A Padlet customer service representative told Celeste, one of the project’s creators, that the map “was trashed due to violations of our Content Policy,” without specifying which policy was violated.
Como políticas dos EUA afetam jovens cientistas
Todos os anos, a MIT Technology Review celebra jovens cientistas, empreendedores e inventores de destaque de todo o mundo em nossa lista Innovators Under 35. Acabamos de publicar a edição de 2025. Neste ano, no entanto, o contexto é marcadamente diferente: a comunidade científica dos Estados Unidos se encontra em uma posição sem precedentes, com os próprios alicerces de seu trabalho sob ataque.
Early Career Scientists React to Trump Policies Targeting Academia
(TNS) — This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s “America Undone” series, examining how the foundations of U.S. success in science and innovation are currently under threat. You can read the rest here. Every year MIT Technology Review celebrates accomplished young scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors from around the world in our Innovators Under 35 list. We’ve just published the 2025 edition.
Desafios para Sistemas Justos -MIT Technology Review Portugal
Hans de Zwart, um professor de educação física que se tornou defensor dos direitos digitais, diz que, quando viu o plano de Amesterdão para usar um algoritmo para avaliar todos os candidatos a subsídios sociais da cidade quanto a possíveis fraudes, quase caiu da cadeira.
A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found. Thousands of images—including identifiable faces—were found in a small subset of DataComp CommonPool, a major AI training set for image generation scraped from the web.
A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
The bottom line, says William Agnew, a postdoctoral fellow in AI ethics at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the coauthors, is that “anything you put online can [be] and probably has been scraped.” The researchers found thousands ofinstances of validated identity documents—including images of credit cards, driver’s licenses, passports, and birth certificates—as well as over 800 validated job application documents (including résumés and cover letters), which were confirmed through LinkedIn...
Amsterdã e o desafio de uma IA justa
Dois futuros. Hans de Zwart, um professor de educação física que se tornou defensor dos direitos digitais, diz que, quando viu o plano de Amsterdã para usar um algoritmo para avaliar todos os solicitantes de benefícios sociais da cidade quanto a possíveis fraudes, ele quase caiu da cadeira.
EUA investigaram críticos de Trump
Um documento que não havia sido divulgado anteriormente, distribuído pelo alto funcionário do Departamento de Estado dos Estados Unidos Darren Beattie, revela um esforço abrangente para descobrir todas as comunicações entre a equipe de um pequeno escritório governamental focado em desinformação online e uma longa lista de figuras públicas e privadas — muitas das quais são alvos históricos da direita política.
What does it mean for an algorithm to be “fair”?
Back in February, I flew to Amsterdam to report on a high-stakes experiment the city had recently conducted: a pilot program for what it called Smart Check, which was its attempt to create an effective, fair, and unbiased predictive algorithm to try to detect welfare fraud. But the city fell short of its lofty goals—and, with our partners at Lighthouse Reports and the Dutch newspaper Trouw, we tried to get to the bottom of why. You can read about it in our deep dive published last week.
Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI
This story is a partnership between MIT Technology Review, Lighthouse Reports, and Trouw, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Two futures Hans de Zwart, a gym teacher turned digital rights advocate, says that when he saw Amsterdam’s plan to have an algorithm evaluate every welfare applicant in the city for potential fraud, he nearly fell out of his chair.
IA e acessibilidade para pessoas com deficiência
Como pessoa com deficiência desde o nascimento, que lida constantemente com várias condições, tenho uma tendência natural para ver as tecnologias emergentes com algum cepticismo. A maioria das inovações é desenvolvida a pensar na maioria das pessoas — neste caso, pessoas sem deficiência — e a verdade é que não há garantias de que terei acesso a elas. Claro que há excepções à regra. Um exemplo emblemático é o iPhone.
Recuo dos EUA nos direitos digitais preocupa ativistas
De 24 a 27 de fevereiro, juntei-me a mais de 3.200 activistas dos direitos digitais, formuladores de políticas tecnológicas, pesquisadores e alguns representantes de empresas de tecnologia em Taiwan, na RightsCon, a maior conferência mundial sobre direitos digitais. Conferências de direitos humanos podem ser, no mínimo, desanimadoras.
Senior State Department official sought internal communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics
This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s “America Undone” series, examining how the foundations of US success in science and innovation are currently under threat. You can read the rest here.
Países reagem ao domínio dos EUA em IA
No fim de fevereiro, enquanto eu participava da conferência sobre direitos digitais RightsCon, em Taiwan, acompanhei em tempo real o momento em que organizações da sociedade civil de todo o mundo, incluindo dos Estados Unidos, enfrentavam a perda de um dos maiores financiadores do trabalho global em direitos digitais: o governo dos Estados Unidos.
Recuo dos EUA nos direitos digitais preocupa
Nos dias 24 a 27 de fevereiro, juntei-me a mais de 3.200 ativistas de direitos digitais, formuladores de políticas tecnológicas, pesquisadores e alguns representantes de empresas de tecnologia em Taiwan, na RightsCon, a maior conferência mundial sobre direitos digitais. Conferências de direitos humanos podem ser, no mínimo, desanimadoras.
Yahoo pagará 5,4 millones de dólares décadas después de exponer datos de disidentes chinos
Una demanda que buscaba responsabilizar a Yahoo por “hacer la vista gorda” ante la mala gestión de un fondo de derechos humanos destinado a disidentes chinos se resolvió la semana pasada con un acuerdo de 5,425 millones de dólares, tras ocho años de batalla legal. Al menos 3 millones de ese monto se destinarán a la creación de un nuevo fondo.
Yahoo will give millions to a settlement fund for Chinese dissidents, decades after exposing user data
A lawsuit to hold Yahoo responsible for “willfully turning a blind eye” to the mismanagement of a human rights fund for Chinese dissidents was settled for $5.425 million last week, after an eight-year court battle.
US office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated
This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s “America Undone” series, examining how the foundations of US success in science and innovation are currently under threat. You can read the rest here. The only office within the US State Department that monitors foreign disinformation is to be eliminated, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, confirming reporting by MIT Technology Review.
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