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10.25.19
Michael Bierut + Jessica Helfand | Audio

Episode 113: Facing the Future


Jessica, who is spending the month in Italy, made a trip to Milan to see Kate Crawford | Trevor Paglen: Training Humans at the Prada Foundation.
Whether this incredible gesture to surveil us is a measure of public oversight or an expression of, I don't know, Orwellian lunacy depends on many things not least of which is your skin color.…Your face can be picked out of a crowd, it can be misnamed, misaligned, mislabeled and there's all sorts of wrongful accusations that are going on.

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