Biometric Technologies, Data and the Sensory Work of Border Control

Møhl, Perle

doi:10.1080/00141844.2019.1696858

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“…This allowed for an objective control for comparison regarding whether the AI and CGC-mediated narrative might elicit more or less empathy than was shown to the actual human asylum seeker. The importance of such research goes beyond the ethics of whether it is just or ethical to portray a narrative with a changed protagonist and medium, as governments are already funding and testing AI algorithms and ML-based CGCs for a variety of purposes, without fully understanding what sort of psychological response CGCs may elicit from humans (see iborderctrl, Technical Framework, n.d.;O'Shea et al 2018;Møhl 2022;Grünenberg et al 2022). The value of such research transcends artistic research ethics, and involves how experiencers of such media might have potentially long-standing attitudes toward a subaltern class of people shaped toward or away from an "othering" perspective.…”

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Virtual Representations and Their Ethical Implications

Mcnamara

2023

Baltic Screen Media Review

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This paper will address ethical concerns surrounding the representation of vulnerable groups as well as the methodological challenges inherent in using artificial intelligence and human-like computer-generated characters in human studies that involve representing such groups. Such concerns focus on consequences arising from the technological affordances of new systems for creating narratives, as well as graphical and audio representations that are capable of portraying beings with close resemblance to humans. Enacting such virtual representations of humans inevitably gives rise to important ethical questions: (1) Who has the right to tell certain stories? (2) Is it ethical to change the medium of a narrative and the identity of a protagonist? (3) Do such changes, or technological mediations, affect whether a vulnerable group will be fairly and accurately portrayed? (4) And what are the implications, either way? While the backdrop of the paper involves discussing the potential of virtual representation as a meditative tool for moral and social change, the ethical implications inherent in the use of new cutting-edge technologies, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman, to create human-like virtual character narratives call for theoretical scrutiny from a methodological perspective.

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Section: Is It Ethical To Change the Medium Of A Narrative And The Id...mentioning

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Virtual Representations and Their Ethical Implications

Mcnamara

2023

Baltic Screen Media Review

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“…In the anthropological literature, several scholars focus on how states, institutions, and industries make and deploy different types of security through border patrols, police, military, private security companies, and so forth (Blom Hansen 2006; Diphoorn 2017; Grassiani and Volinz 2016; Maguire and Fussey 2016; Møhl 2020; Samimian‐Darash and Stalcup 2017; Sausdal 2019). Here the line between state and non‐state actors is often blurred, for instance when private security companies imitate or take on state roles.…”

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Concrete Blocks, Bollards, and Ha‐ha Walls: How Rationales of the Security Industry Shape Our Cities

Ilum¹

2022

City & Society

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Security measures take up more and more space in our cities. In parallel, the security industry is growing. To understand these developments, we must take a step back and unfold the rationales and theories that lie behind such security measures and their materiality, specifically in the security industry. This article uses the case of the newly developed counterterrorism industry in Copenhagen to unpack some of the general dynamics that enable growth in the security industry and an increase in security measures. Building on ethnographic fieldwork among security companies, architecture firms, the Municipality of Copenhagen, the national security service, and others, this article shows how theories about counterterrorism develop in an interplay between this diverse group of security actors. The article zooms in on a security company and an architecture firm, and their divergent approaches to counterterrorism measures, and shows how both develop in conflict with local city values and security‐skeptical actors. The two companies work hard to establish and promote theories not only about counterterrorism but also about what is best for the city and its citizens, which help legitimize their work in Copenhagen and shape public opinion on counterterrorism, and, ultimately, the materiality of the city.

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Biometric Ambiguities

Simonsen

2023

Tahriib – Journeys Into the Unknown

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Biometric Technologies, Data and the Sensory Work of Border Control

Cited by 6 publications

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Virtual Representations and Their Ethical Implications

Virtual Representations and Their Ethical Implications

Concrete Blocks, Bollards, and Ha‐ha Walls: How Rationales of the Security Industry Shape Our Cities

Biometric Ambiguities

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