[AI-Generated Summary]: Gates Cambridge Scholar Sonia Fereidooni is pursuing a PhD in Digital Humanities at Cambridge, researching big tech companies’ involvement in defense and surveillance. Her work maps supply chains between AI companies and military operations in the Middle East, examining how international humanitarian law struggles to address AI warfare developments. Drawing on her experience as a Google engineer, she argues that military surveillance technologies tested abroad may eventually affect domestic civil liberties, framing this as a universal concern requiring cross-political dialogue.
- Scholar: Sonia Fereidooni
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Focus: AI ethics, military technology, surveillance