Hard Reset Episode Four: Bond for detained asylum-seekers and robots writing news

Last week, U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman ruled that the indefinite detention of asylum-seeking migrants is unconstitutional. On this week’s episode: How that order came about, despite the fact that immigration judges have had the ability to grant bond to asylum-seekers for more than a decade.

Plus, just a few minutes after an earthquake hit California last week, the Los Angeles Times had a story on the quake ready to go. That’s because the story had been automatically generated by a robot, as part of a growing trend of AI in journalism.