Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups, senior State Department officials tell Axios.
They say they’re also checking news reports of anti-Israel demonstrations and Jewish students’ lawsuits that highlight foreign nationals allegedly engaged in antisemitic activity without consequence.
The State Department is working with the departments of Justice and Homeland Security in what one senior State official called a “whole of government and whole of authority approach.”
The big picture: The cumulative effect of Trump’s executive orders is already having a chilling effect on student visa-holders. They’re starting to shy away from protests critical of Israel.
Definitely agree. On all your points. I’ve had AI be able to tell what I’m working on in my IDE and be able to literally complete the rest of my code for what I was doing with minimal errors. It’s pretty nuts. Same thing where I was learning a new programming language and the AI was able to help me basically convert my knowledge of prior languages to the new one. It’s ability to teach, as long as you continue to ask questions about it because sometimes its first answer is wrong, is really helpful!
I think AI summarization and search are also great. Particularly search can be great for those of us who are both bad at googling things and are tired of the ads. I’ve had questions that I’ve googled and have to go through so much to get to the right thing (simple stuff, just differences between stock and broth or whether to throw out meat that has a slight smell to it), but then you ask the AI and boom, there’s the answer. And with AI it’s a lot easier to do the search, you can just ask the question instead of having to use fancy techniques for getting the right results.
AI has some great uses but the problem is that it’s getting used in ways it shouldn’t be at all. Like the way the article talks about and in any artistic fashion. AI is a very exact tool, not a catch-all for everything.