Futurism

Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls

For years, a US telecommunications company has been building proprietary AI models using phone and video calls placed by inmates in US prisons as building blocks. According to MIT Technology Review, ...
Times Union

Advocates concerned as AI monitors the communications of inmates

An inmate talks on the phone at the Albany County Correctional Facility on Thursday in Colonie. An inmate talks on the phone at the Albany County Correctional Facility on Thursday in Colonie. A phone ...
Lexington Herald Leader

KY prisoners hack state-issued computer tablets to digitally create $1M. How’d they do it?

Securus provides computer tablets to prison and jail inmates through for-profit contracts around the country. Securus Technologies Almost nobody outside of the Kentucky Department of Corrections has ...
Slate

The Robber Barons of Prison Tech

This is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prison. Just a few companies control prisoners’ access to phone and video calls, educational resources, data storage, ...
MIT Technology Review

An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls

The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.” A US telecom company trained an AI model on years of inmates’ phone and video calls and is now piloting that model to scan their ...