Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

The US has spent billions building a virtual wall of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years to help detect crossers and save lives. A groundbreaking investigation documented over a thousand people who moved through areas watched by these towers without being reached, ultimately dying there, some even under AI-powered towers. The findings reveal a severe humanitarian crisis and repeated failures of the virtual wall's basic security promise, as discussed by editor-in-chief Mat Honan, senior AI reporter James O’Donnell, and senior investigative reporter Eileen Guo.