{"id":8643,"date":"2025-03-11T17:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8643"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:08:20","slug":"us-state-dept-to-use-ai-to-revoke-visas-of-foreign-students-who-appear-pro-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8643","title":{"rendered":"US State Dept. to use AI to Revoke Visas of Foreign Students who appear &#8220;pro-Hamas&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/03\/06\/state-department-ai-revoke-foreign-student-visas-hamas?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">Axios has a story about how the State Department is launching a programme to review social media of foreign students<\/a> to see if they are &#8220;pro-Hamas.&#8221; If they appear to support Hamas then they may get their visas revoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A senior official is quoted as saying \u201cit would be negligent for the department that takes national security seriously to ignore publicly available information about [visa] applicants in terms of AI tools. &#8230; AI is one of the resources available to the government that&#8217;s very different from where we were technologically decades ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are obvious free-speech issues, but I also wonder at the use of AI to police speech.  What will be policed next? Pro-EDI speech?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/garymarcus.substack.com\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">Gary Marcus&#8217; Substack<\/a> for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios has a story about how the State Department is launching a programme to review social media of foreign students to see if they are &#8220;pro-Hamas.&#8221; If they appear to support Hamas then they may get their visas revoked. A senior official is quoted as saying \u201cit would be negligent for the department that takes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8643\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US State Dept. to use AI to Revoke Visas of Foreign Students who appear &#8220;pro-Hamas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,26,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-education-and-administration","category-ethics-of-data-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8645,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions\/8645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}