AI border towers missed a dying man 360 feet away
A border-surveillance system built to spot people and trigger rapid responses failed to get help to José Morales Bernal, who died within 360 feet of a tower in southern New Mexico. Anduril towers use cameras and AI to detect and track people, then alert nearby agents, but landfill workers found Morales, saw him lying in the sand hours later, and called Border Patrol. The case puts a concrete failure behind the billions spent on the border’s “virtual wall.”