person
Trevor Paglen
Artist; AI surveillance and computer vision
Artist and geographer whose work investigates the apparatus of state surveillance and the visual training data that underpins computer vision. Collaborated on 'ImageNet Roulette' with Kate Crawford.
current Artist, Independent artist
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Near-term harms firstendorses
Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narrativesArgues computer vision systems encode racialized and political assumptions through their training data, and that revealing these assumptions through art is part of the political work.
Computer vision doesn't see the world neutrally. It sees through the categories its training data inherited, and those categories are political all the way down.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.