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Information and Artificial Intelligence reporting examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.
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| Story | Publication Date | Region |
| Texas’s AI-Powered Surveillance Arsenal Has Ballooned. Proposed Laws Provide Few Guardrails. by Francesca D'Annunzio | March 31, 2025 | United States |
| The Race to Superintelligence by Jennifer Strong | October 16, 2024 | United States |
| Peering Into the Black Box by Arijit Douglas Sen | September 20, 2022 | United States |
| State of Surveillance: Police Use of AI and Facial Recognition in Communities of Color by Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson | April 23, 2020 | United States |
| Are AI Hiring Tools Racist and Ableist? by Hilke Schellmann | February 8, 2023 | United States |
| Eye on the Wall: Refugees and 'Smart' Borders by Lydia Emmanouilidou | September 12, 2022 | Greece, Turkey |
| Project Tracked by Garance Burke, Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman, and Michael Tarm | June 3, 2022 | United States |
| There Goes the Neighborhood by Lauren Markham | August 8, 2024 | Mexico, United States |
| How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps by Emily Elena Dugdale and Hanisha Harjani | February 13, 2025 | United States |
| My AI Girlfriend: A Cure for Loneliness by Patricia Clarke and Matt Russell | December 5, 2024 | United States |
| Big Tech Firms Hide Behind Other Companies To Operate Data Centers in Brazil (Portuguese) by Laís Martins and Isabella Mota | March 5, 2026 | Brazil |
| Chile: The Cost of Feeding Artificial Intelligence (Spanish) by Pablo Jiménez Arandia and Muriel Alarcón | November 28, 2025 | Chile |
| Texas Is Giving Data Centers More Than $1 Billion in Tax Breaks Each Year by Paul Cobler and Apurva Mahajan | April 8, 2026 | United States |
| 'AI and Welfare: A Failed Match' by Hera Rizwan | March 27, 2026 | India |