How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego spent 15 months creating the first comprehensive map and analysis of deaths near US border surveillance towers, examining migrant deaths since 2015. They requested records from 17 Texas county sheriff's offices and obtained over 4,000 pages from 14 counties, used Anthropic's Claude API to extract coordinates where remains were found, then manually checked samples.
Selection record
Not admittedSum of both 76 < twice the threshold 152
- Source tier
- Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
- Pre-filter
- passed：正文详述用Claude API提取边境死亡数据
A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.
Source: MIT Technology Review · AI · technologyreview.com