Petra Molnar

Faculty Associate

Ethics and Governance of AI Justice, Equity, & Inclusion Technology & the Law
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Email
pmolnar@cyber.harvard.edu
Website
https://www.petramolnar.com
Twitter
https://twitter.com/_PMolnar

Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing on the impacts of migration technologies on people crossing borders. She co-runs the Refugee Law Lab at York University and the Migration and Technology Monitor, which funds community grounded projects on border tech. Petra's first book, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (The New Press), is coming out in 2024.

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Medium

Building Knowledge about Generative AI with Mobile Populations

BKC Faculty Associate Petra Molnar challenges us to consider the potential impact of generative AI on the surveillance of borders and of migrants.

Nov 2, 2023
RefugeE Studies Center's Youtube

The use of new technologies in immigration and asylum governance: implications for human rights

BKC Faculty Associate Petra Molnar joins the RefugeE Studies Center to discuss how the use of new technologies in immigration and asylum governance affect human rights. 

Oct 26, 2023
UN Human Rights Office

Digital Border Governance: a Human Righst Based Approach

With the United Nations Human Rights Office, Lorna McGregor and Petra Molnar launched a study advocating for a human-rights based approach to digital border technologies. 

Sep 18, 2023
Computer Weekly

New Border Force unit to deploy more surveillance tech in Channel

"Instead of investing in costly technologies, governments could be using this money to strengthen access to justice, services and psycho-social support for people who are…

Feb 9, 2023
Petra Molnar

Technologies of Violence at the World's Sharpest Edges

BKC Faculty Associate Petra Molnar

Jan 5, 2023
VICE

These Tiny Greek Islands Have Become Unlikely Laboratories for Global Corporations

BKC Fellow Petra Molnar discusses surveillance and the use of tiny islands as spaces for large tech companies.  Petra Molnar, a lawyer…

Nov 18, 2022

Events

7 Fellows Predict the Future: Many questions and some answers on human capital, artificial intelligence, politics, and rights!
May 17, 2023 @ 5:30 PM

7 Fellows Predict the Future: Many questions and some answers on human capital, artificial intelligence, politics, and rights!

Come through for the 2022-2023 BKC Fellows' lighting talks on May 17...

March 28: Storytelling, Migration Journeys, and Technology — Photo Exhibit
Mar 28, 2023 @ 5:30 PM

March 28: Storytelling, Migration Journeys, and Technology — Photo Exhibit

This exhibit asks the audience to consider and evaluate the human cost of an increasingly automated world.