Civil Rights Groups Seek Federal Funding Ban on AI-Powered Surveillance Tools
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“One of the things we have seen is that a lot of those COVID-era funds have been used to procure a lot of these technologies,” said Clarence Okoh, one of the leaders of the coalition and a senior policy counsel for the Center for Law and Social Policy, an anti-poverty advocacy nonprofit. “The private sector companies that sell these technologies actually market the fact that there are these federal grant programs that are available and encourage schools to leverage them.”
Source URL: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/civil-rights-groups-seek-federal-funding-ban-on-ai-powered-surveillance-tools/2024/04?emci=3ec14f2a-a2fd-ee11-aaf0-7c1e52017038&emdi=b080e2f3-c4fd-ee11-aaf0-7c1e52017038&ceid=2846927
