Trevor Paglen explores the unseen networks of power that monitor and control us, documenting secret US government bases, offshore prisons and surveillance #drones. In the run up to his show at Milan’s Fondazione Prada (until 24 February 2020), Paglen collaborated with the artificial intelligence researcher Kate Crawford to launch ImageNet Roulette, an online interactive project which revealed the often racist or misogynistic ways in which #ImageNet—one of the largest online databases that is widely used to train machines how to read pictures—classifies images of people.

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