MIT 调查美墨边境监控塔附近死亡并绘制首张综合地图
原标题：How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
AI 摘要
MIT Technology Review 与 Times of San Diego 合作，历时 15 个月调查美墨边境监控塔附近的移民死亡情况，通过政府文件、实地走访和 45 人以上采访，构建了首个监控塔附近死亡的综合地图与分析。团队合并多个组织的数据，并向得克萨斯州 17 个县提交公共记录请求，最终从 14 个县获得超过 4000 页记录。对于 Kenedy、Webb 和 Hidalgo 三个县的大量记录，团队使用 Anthropic 的 Claude API 提取遗骸发现地坐标，并人工抽样核验 AI 准确性。
正文节选
Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and apprehend them? This story is part of Dying on Camera, a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego. Journalists in both newsrooms spent the past year examining the failures of border surveillance technology and uncovering the stories of the people who die in the borderlands.