The Trump administration accelerated deportations using data analytics, facial recognition, and artificial intelligence. The Department of Homeland Security reported nearly 200 uses of AI in ICE, including facial recognition and autonomous surveillance towers. Social media is also monitored to revoke visas.
The Luddites feared the social and economic impacts of technology and who controlled it. Today, with artificial intelligence, we must remember the Luddites: rejecting that corporations unilaterally decide the technological course, prioritizing the impact on workers, social cohesion, and democracy. Journalists, academics, lawmakers, and educators must question the corporate narrative about the inevitability of innovation, focusing on human agency and who benefits and who pays the price in the development of artificial intelligence.
The FDA’s CNPV program seeks to accelerate the review of drugs to drive U.S. public health goals with five priorities: addressing health crises, delivering innovative cures, covering unmet medical needs, strengthening local supply chains, and increasing affordability. Expedited drug review motivates development, but its ability to foster local production and affordability is questionable.
New tariffs raise residential construction costs in the U.S., reaching $30 billion in investment, exacerbating the housing crisis with high prices and rents, despite affordable housing policies.
California has attempted to link transportation, land use, and housing to climate policy, but state laws still fail to meet their goals and overload local authorities. Despite efforts, the transportation sector remains an environmental risk. Laws seek to decrease miles traveled in vehicles and counteract the negative effects of car-centered development.
