The Rise of Algorithmic Policing in the United States
Join IRW for a public lecture by Prof. R.J. Gonzales focusing on the rise of algorithmic policing in the United States.
About
Roberto J. González
Affiliate Researcher and Professor in Anthropology
Roberto J. González is Professor of Anthropology at San José State University (SJSU) and an Affiliated Researcher with the Realities of Algorithmic Warfare Research Platform at Utrecht University. He has served on the American Anthropological Association’s Committee on Ethics and chaired that committee in 2012. Roberto has been elected to serve as President-Elect of the American Ethnological Society beginning in November 2025. At SJSU, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in anthropological theory, ethnographic methods, and social control.
He has published several books and edited collections over the course of his career, including Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca (2001), Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power (2004), American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain (2009), Militarizing Culture: Essays on the Warfare State (2010), and the co-edited volume Militarization: A Reader (2019).
His most recent books are Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network (2020) and War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (2022). Roberto is currently completing a book on AI and algorithmic policing in the United States.
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