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From Surveillance to Robot Guards: How AI Could Reshape Prison Life

Critics worry about opaque data collection, privacy violations and the technology’s bias spreading in jails and prisons.

Closing Argument • 08.30.2025

What San Francisco’s Killer Robots Debate Tells Us About Policing

Among unanswered questions: How will the courts treat cases that involve police robots?

Closing Argument • 12.10.2022

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