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: GamePolitics.comU.S. Military?s ?Human Terrain Mapping? Concerns Anthropologists
By pete_gallagher
The growing reliance of the U.S. military on high-tech recreations of foreign villages and their inhabitants has some social scientists concerned.
A Boston.com story on the subject begins by outlining the work of University of Pennsylvania engineer Barry Silverman, who has been funded (by an unnamed U.S. agency) to the tune of over $500,000 in order to recreate a 3D computer model of an actual village in Afghanistan. Silverman is supplied with data from U.S. Army social scientists, who interviewed residents of the actual village.
Dubbed 'human terrain mapping, it's hoped that this technology can assist the U.S. in fighting terrorists and insurgents, but the whole idea has Hugh Gusterson, a George Mason University anthropologist, concerned. Gusterson asked, 'Are we going to detain someone if a computer predicts that he will become an insurgent?"
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).
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