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Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, believes ICE is fundamentally indifferent as to whether its AI outputs can be trusted. “I think that pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” she says. “They don’t care if the information they have is good. There is an enormous amount of pressure from the Trump administration on ICE to simply make arrests and to detain people, to deport people, and to do it in large numbers, and you cannot get numbers that big by adhering to the rule of law, as we have seen.”

Galperin also regards the Trump administration as the perfect gullible customers for overleveraged AI giants controlled by Trump’s billionaire tech-executive allies. “These companies are often in an enormous amount of debt, and one of the big problems that they’re having right now is that there’s simply not enough uptake by paying customers for all of these products that they’re building in order to justify the enormous cost of running them,” she says. “Leaving the U.S. government holding the bag is a way around that.”