AI RESEARCH
The Weaponization of Computer Vision: Tracing Military-Surveillance Ties through Conference Sponsorship
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2604.07803v1 Announce Type: cross Computer vision, a core domain of artificial intelligence (AI), is the field that enables the computational analysis, understanding, and generation of visual data. Despite being historically rooted in military funding and increasingly deployed in warfare, the field tends to position itself as a neutral, purely technical endeavor, failing to engage in discussions about its dual-use applications.