I thought we had agreed that this approach had some problems?

https://www.pogowasright.org/lexisnexis-is-selling-your-personal-data-to-ice-so-it-can-try-to-predict-crimes/

LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes

Sam Biddle reports:

The legal research and public records data broker LexisNexis is providing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with tools to target people who may potentially commit a crime — before any actual crime takes place, according to a contract document obtained by The Intercept. LexisNexis then allows ICE to track the purported pre-criminals’ movements.

The unredacted contract overview provides a rare look at the controversial $16.8 million agreement between LexisNexis and ICE, a federal law enforcement agency whose surveillance of and raids against migrant communities are widely criticized as brutal, unconstitutional, and inhumane.

Read more at The Intercept.

Perspective.

https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/workforce/hopes-and-fears.html

PwC’s Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey 2023

Business leaders everywhere are prioritising transformation, but what if your most skilled people are more reinvention ready than your company culture is? And what if your employees say they are even more likely to quit now than they were last year—back when everyone thought the “great resignation” was at its peak?

Is this how all classes will be (should be) structured?

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/6/21/cs50-artificial-intelligence/

CS50 Will Integrate Artificial Intelligence Into Course Instruction

This year, students who enroll in Computer Science 50: Introduction to Computer Science, Harvard’s flagship coding course, will have a new learning tool at their disposal: artificial intelligence.

Starting in the fall, students will be able to use AI to help them find bugs in their code, give feedback on the design of student programs, explain unfamiliar lines of code or error messages, and answer individual questions, CS50 professor David J. Malan ’99 wrote in an emailed statement.

AI use has exploded in recent months: As large language models like ChatGPT become widely accessible for free, companies are laying off workers, experts are sounding the alarm about the proliferation of disinformation, and academics are grappling with its impact on teaching and research.