https://sophiagoodfriend.com Sophia Goodfriend Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:45:14 +0000 https://sophiagoodfriend.com en https://sophiagoodfriend.com/Title Wed, 13 Oct 2021 18:11:46 +0000 Sophia Goodfriend https://sophiagoodfriend.com/Title Sophia GoodfriendSurveillance, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Rights https://sophiagoodfriend.com/About Thu, 14 Oct 2021 11:19:42 +0000 Sophia Goodfriend https://sophiagoodfriend.com/About About I am the Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Pembroke College and a non-resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative. My research examines the impact of big data and machine learning on military conflict. My popular writing on warfare and automation has appeared in The London Review of Books, Foreign Policy, The Baffler, +972 Magazine, The Boston Review, among other outlets. I have a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University. I recieved a Master’s in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a BA in American Studies (summa cum laude) from Tufts University. My research has been supported by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, the Fulbright-Hays Program, and the National Science Foundation, among other institutions. My inbox is open for commissions.  https://sophiagoodfriend.com/Research Thu, 14 Oct 2021 11:31:51 +0000 Sophia Goodfriend https://sophiagoodfriend.com/Research Current Research My research and writing examines how artificial intelligence is upending what it means to wage and live with war. I leverage multi-sited and investigative ethnographic methods to foreground the human lives at stake in increasingly automated military conflicts. I defended my dissertation,  Automating Warfare in Israel and Palestine, in the summer of 2024. Based on four years of ethnographic research with soldiers and civilians living at the cross-hairs of regional conflict, my study provides an ethnographic portrait of automated warfare’s profoundly human costs.  My research has theoretical and practical implications. Ethnographically, I ask what unchecked developments in AI mean for the human condition. Practically, my research investigates the risks posed by new technologies while outlining how automated  systems can be implemented without eroding fundamental human rights.  https://sophiagoodfriend.com/Articles Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:03:10 +0000 Sophia Goodfriend https://sophiagoodfriend.com/Articles Academic Articles Algorithmic Dissent: Militarized Platforms in JerusalemJournal of Palestine Studies Fall 2024 Read A Street View of Occupation: Getting Around Hebron on Google Maps Visual Anthropology Review, Fall 2021 Read Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and  Dispossession in Hebron's Old CityInt. Journal of Middle East Studies Summer 2023 Read Forthcoming Spring 2022 Drone Warfare's Redemptive Refrains Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, EcologyLondon: Open Humanities Press https://sophiagoodfriend.com/Popular-Press Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:15:29 +0000 Sophia Goodfriend https://sophiagoodfriend.com/Popular-Press Popular Press (select list) Militarised AIThe London Review of Books Read The New Old WarfareThe Boston Review Read Kill ListsLondon Review of Books Read the human decisions behind Israel’s automated war+972 Magazine Read In Tel AvivLondon Review of Books Blog Read Blunt forceThe Baffler Read Israel’s TikTok ExtremistsJewish Currents Read How AI is intensifying Israel’s bombardments of Gaza+972 Magazine Read Israel’s Far Right Could Escalate Drone Warfare Against PalestiniansForeign Policy Read Point. Click. Occupy.  The Baffler Read How the Occupation Fuels Tel Aviv’s Booming AI Sector Foreign Policy Read Cyberespionage with BenefitsBoston Review Read When Palestinian Political Speech Is “Incitement” Jewish Currents Read The AI dragnet Dissent and The Intercept Read Image restoration+972 Magazine Read High Tech Surveillance was Never going to bring peaceForeign Policy Read gaza war offers ultimate Marketing opportunity for arms firms+972 Magazine Read Viral AtrocitiesSapiens Read New Tech, Old WarLondon Review of Books Blog Read Paranoid PostingThe Baffler Read The gamified occupationJewish Currents Read The banality of surveillanceThe Boston Review Read The start-up spy state+972 Magazine Read ‘We violated people’s privacy for a living’: How Israel’s cyber army went corporate +972 Magazine Read Naked Gun Jewish Currents Read Featured Trump’s SurveIllance TechThe Intercept BriefingListen Israel’s Techno-SolutionismPolitics Theory OtherListen Why Are Israeli Defense Forces Soldiers Posting Thirst Traps on TikTok?Rolling Stone Read A Political Road Not Taken in AmericaThe New York TimesRead PRecision Warfare does not existThis is Hell RadioListen Al Jazeera Listening PostDocumenting Surveillance in HebronWatch Unregulated Israeli spyware is a global threat, experts warnThe Middle East Eye Read https://sophiagoodfriend.com/Contact Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:45:14 +0000 Sophia Goodfriend https://sophiagoodfriend.com/Contact Sophia L. 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