Beyond the blur

“It isn’t like we don’t have plenty of law enforcement, interdiction and prosecutorial tools at our disposal to dismantle drug trafficking organization,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, who called the order the “latest episode in drug policy theatrics.”

Some roboticists say that remote training has its limits. “There’s no world in which an AI operator can train the system for every situation that may occur,” said Taskin Padir, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University.

Northeastern University Health and Law Professor Leo Beletsky said without the proper guardrails to ensure that medical standards are followed, large therapeutic communities in the U.S. could turn into something like work camps.