Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups, senior State Department officials tell Axios.
They say they’re also checking news reports of anti-Israel demonstrations and Jewish students’ lawsuits that highlight foreign nationals allegedly engaged in antisemitic activity without consequence.
The State Department is working with the departments of Justice and Homeland Security in what one senior State official called a “whole of government and whole of authority approach.”
The big picture: The cumulative effect of Trump’s executive orders is already having a chilling effect on student visa-holders. They’re starting to shy away from protests critical of Israel.
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Remember, everytime someone tells you speaking out against the state of Israel is antisemitism, just tell them the person in charge employed a Nazi.
I know the image is a meme, but LLMs are actually subtly racist.
“subtly”?
Ah great, and then you can go after the ones the AI tells you are most likely to become “pro-Hamas” (that is, anti-genocide) at some point in future. And then all the ones who are likely to harbor anti-Nazi views.
Hey, I watched a movie about this once!
Does this one start with a V or a date something like 40 years ago?
Edit: or has a plot about ‘pre-crime’?
This is of course bigger than just AI but this kind of thing is one of the things that really bothers me about it. AI is useful for a handful of things, I’ve mainly just found it useful to help debug code. But the industry puffs it up so much as this revolutionizing force which leads to people doing things like this. Take a tool that is useful in less than a handful of circumstances and have it do EVERYTHING. Because the industry says it can and they wouldn’t lie right?
Of course all this will do is revoked visas of brown immigrant students.
An under-appreciated capability of the current ai is its ability to summarize things: this is where it has the most potential.
- We’re using speech to text to create transcripts of meetings, which works really well, and are playing with ai summaries. You can only trust them so far but are generally good to see what the meeting covered.
- similarly ai search, which is currently slow and annoying, but to the extent it is just summarizing the top results, is potentially useful with further improvements
- just yesterday I had some really good coding results. I was writing unit tests, which do follow a pattern. My ide is great for autocompletion and syntax verification, but the ai was suggesting whole lines and even tests that I could use with minor changes
Definitely agree. On all your points. I’ve had AI be able to tell what I’m working on in my IDE and be able to literally complete the rest of my code for what I was doing with minimal errors. It’s pretty nuts. Same thing where I was learning a new programming language and the AI was able to help me basically convert my knowledge of prior languages to the new one. It’s ability to teach, as long as you continue to ask questions about it because sometimes its first answer is wrong, is really helpful!
I think AI summarization and search are also great. Particularly search can be great for those of us who are both bad at googling things and are tired of the ads. I’ve had questions that I’ve googled and have to go through so much to get to the right thing (simple stuff, just differences between stock and broth or whether to throw out meat that has a slight smell to it), but then you ask the AI and boom, there’s the answer. And with AI it’s a lot easier to do the search, you can just ask the question instead of having to use fancy techniques for getting the right results.
AI has some great uses but the problem is that it’s getting used in ways it shouldn’t be at all. Like the way the article talks about and in any artistic fashion. AI is a very exact tool, not a catch-all for everything.
Israel has to go.
Imagine being a nation of 350 million people, with the strongest military in the world, and you are collectively made slave to some 7 million people, by your two main political parties.
Imagine you not only argue about whether genocide or ethnic cleansing committed by those 7 million is the better thing to vote for in your elections, but also getting your constitutional rights abolished for them.
Trained on definitely not at all biased sources, of course.
That’s got to be a free speech violation
Other countries should put trump, JD, and felon on a travel ban. That will really get under their skin especially if they have businesses there.
I bet it’s Muskovitch’s shitty AI too.
Wow! Exactly like China.
Due process?
No.
Due, Process!
