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Tag: AI
Talking Past the Machine: Morality, Politeness, and Alignment in Human-AI Dialogue
arXiv:2609.21401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational AI systems produce fluent, socially appropriate responses, yet whether they participate…
How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government…
UN AI Panel Invokes Precautionary Principle on Loss-of-Control Risk
The Independent International Scientific Panel on AI published a thematic brief on September 21, 2026, that describes the May–July 2026 OpenAI-Hugging…
Interference-Driven Clustered Optimisation for FM Spectrum Coordination
arXiv:2609.21441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-border FM spectrum coordination involves protecting foreign broadcasting services while preserving…
She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight
She had only walked for a couple of hours, and already she was lost. It was early afternoon on Sept. 14, 2025, when 30-year-old Graciela Gómez Hernández…
Think Locally, Refine Globally for Memory-Efficient 3D Reconstruction
arXiv:2609.21437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose LoG-VGGT, a memory-efficient framework for long-sequence 3D reconstruction that balances…
The US 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…
OmniVChat: Synthesizing, Benchmarking, and Training for Native Audio-Visual Dialogue
arXiv:2609.21465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We define OmniVChat (Omni Video Chat) as the task of native audio-visual dialogue between a user and an…
4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”
MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US…