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Leading researchers castigated a federal plan that would use artificial intelligence methods to scrutinize immigrants and visa applicants, saying it is unworkable as written and likely to be \u201cinaccurate and biased\u201d if deployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experts, a group of more than 50 computer and data scientists, mathematicians and other specialists in automated decision-making, urged the Department of Homeland Security to abandon the project, dubbed the \u201cExtreme Vetting Initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That plan has its roots in President Donald Trump\u2019s repeated pledge during the 2016 campaign to subject immigrants seeking admission to the United States to more intense ideological scrutiny \u2014 or, as he put it, \u201dextreme vetting<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the summer, DHS published a \u201dstatement of objectives<\/a>\u201d for a system that would use computer algorithms to scan social media and other material in order to automatically flag undesirable entrants \u2014 and to continuously scan the activities of those allowed into the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal, that document stated, was to let computers help determine whether an immigrant \u201cintends to commit criminal or terrorist acts,\u201d as well as their likelihood of becoming a \u201cpositively contributing member of society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a joint letter to DHS<\/a> on Thursday, the dissenting researchers on Thursday called that approach \u201cneither appropriate nor feasible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background of the plan<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the document, the office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it was seeking a contractor to automate background checks of foreigners seeking temporary or permanent entry to the U.S. It outlined plans for mining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, academic websites and other publicly-available internet data, then using AI techniques to analyze it and to keep monitoring those sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This contractor would be expected to generate at least 10,000 investigative leads a year that would be forwarded to federal agents, according to the document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICE declined to comment about the proposed initiative. Its public presentations to interested vendors<\/a> haven\u2019t been updated since August, raising the possibility that it might have scrapped or significantly altered the plan since then. But there\u2019s been pressure from the White House to implement strict measures quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours after the deadly Oct. 31 truck attack<\/a> in New York City, Trump said on Twitter<\/a> that he \u201cordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program. Being politically correct is fine, but not for this!\u201d Trump also called for Congress to repeal the diversity visa lottery program that the suspected attacker, an immigrant from Uzbekistan named Sayfullo Saipov, used to enter the country in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has made repeated attempts to restrict entry into the U.S. through several iterations of a travel ban, which have all received a tough reception in the courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vetting extreme vetting<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technology experts, who hail from both academia and big tech firms such as Google and Microsoft, warned that current AI methods aren\u2019t capable of evaluating the traits that the government seeks to measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNeither the federal government nor anyone else has defined, much less attempted to quantify, these characteristics,\u201d the technologists wrote. \u201cAlgorithms designed to predict these undefined qualities could be used to arbitrarily flag groups of immigrants under a veneer of objectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the problems is that unlike algorithms that mine the traditional criminal justice system, where there\u2019s no shortage of cases, the pool of data that could help predict terrorist leanings is tiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the national security context it\u2019s much harder to investigate the problem because you have a couple cases a year,\u201d said UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher Joshua Kroll, who signed the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One contracting-firm employee who attended an informational ICE meeting in July said the proposed system would simply expand data-management work that private vendors already undertake to help the government vet visa applicants. It wouldn\u2019t give contractors any legal authority to approve or deny immigration benefits, said Bill Carney, who manages federal programs for consulting firm McManis & Monsalve Associates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Jacob Shapiro, a Princeton University politics professor who attended one of the meetings as president of investigative analytics firm Giant Oak, said the effectiveness of the vetting system would depend on how it\u2019s crafted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are many ways one could meet that statement of objectives, some of which would make the system fairer, more equitable and faster for those seeking to immigrate,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cBut some of which could be biased and unfair, as any algorithm can be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying the contractors<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advocates who coordinated both the technologists\u2019 protest letter and a second letter<\/a> from civic society groups have also privately lobbied potential vendors such as IBM not to participate in the initiative. IBM said this week that its attendance at the government\u2019s summer meeting was routine and not a sign that it\u2019s planning to make a bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs there is no active project being proposed, it is premature to say whether there is even an opportunity that IBM would consider pursuing,\u201d said IBM spokesman Ian Colley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Robinson, a Georgetown University law professor and co-founder of Upturn, a newly-formed group that looks at the civil rights implications of new technology, said the extreme vetting project doesn\u2019t make sense and doesn\u2019t comport with any reasonable set of values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t something that anyone should be willing to build,\u201d said Robinson, who signed the technologists\u2019 letter. \u201cWhatever you think about what the immigration rules ought to be, this is just nuts. And it\u2019s nuts dressed up as science.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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