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AI, Surveillance, and the Sacred

2025· book-chapter· ng· W4416483631 on OpenAlexaff
Swati Chakraborty

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageng
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMedia, Religion, Digital Communication
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSafeguardingCornerstoneHuman rightsState (computer science)Religious freedomFace (sociological concept)

Abstract

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In an era defined by artificial intelligence and pervasive surveillance technologies, the freedom of religion or belief (FoRB)—a cornerstone of human rights—is facing unprecedented challenges. This paper explores how AI-driven tools, including facial recognition, predictive policing, algorithmic content moderation, and data profiling, are increasingly shaping the landscape in which religious identities are expressed, regulated, or suppressed. While these technologies offer potential benefits, such as improved access to religious resources or safeguarding public safety, they also risk entrenching bias, amplifying discrimination against religious minorities, and enabling state or corporate overreach into sacred spaces and private beliefs.This interdisciplinary inquiry draws from human rights law, AI ethics, and digital sociology to examine the dual-edged role of AI in either protecting or violating FoRB.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.997
Threshold uncertainty score0.018

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.031
Scholarly communication0.0080.006
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.227
Teacher spread0.206 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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