Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a company that makes “AI agents” to rapidly track down targets. The company claims the “skip tracing” AI agents help agencies find people of interest and map out their family and other associates more quickly. According to the procurement records, the company’s services were specifically for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), the part of ICE that identifies, arrests, and deports people.
The contract comes as ICE is spending millions of dollars, and plans to spend tens of millions more, on skip tracing services more broadly. The practice involves ICE paying bounty hunters to use digital tools and physically stalk immigrants to verify their addresses, then report that information to ICE so the agency can act.
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Why waste effort and resources on superfluous things when most of humanity barely make ends meet, and a sizable part yet go hungry/dies of preventable diseases?
I said theory. Theory may, like Star Trek, assume no scarcity of resources. Still even in that setting no kind of communism aimed for luxury ideologically.