Costs of War

Roberto Sirvent is a political theorist who studies race, law, and social movements. He also works at the intersection of ethics, philosophy of religion, and science and technology studies (STS). His primary research examines the prevalence of medical neglect, abuse, and torture in prisons and immigrant detention centers. He is also working on various projects around AI, particularly its connection to the exploitation and surveillance of workers, as well as its use in education, policing, immigration enforcement, war, and other military applications. He is co-author (with Danny Haiphong) of the book, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror (Skyhorse, 2019).

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