The poster for the play Data sports a foreboding warning: “The data is out there. The danger is real.”
That tagline is no exaggeration. Data, written by Matthew Libby, directed by Tyne Rafaeli, and now playing Off Broadway at New York’s Lucille Lortel Theatre, deals in all-too-real concerns. Data privacy, AI acceleration, immigration… It’s all on the table.
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Data follows Maneesh (Karan Brar), a brilliant programmer at Silicon Valley company Athena Technologies. When he joins the data analytics team, he learns the truth of their top-secret project. Athena is competing for a government contract to (spoiler alert!) work with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on a new form of AI-powered immigrant surveillance.
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