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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
fj ("Frédéric Jacobs") wrote:

🤦Oh, it’s the Snowden revelations all over again.

They are claiming that AI-powered mass surveillance is a good thing but mass **domestic** surveillance isn’t

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

Mass domestic surveillance. We support the use of Al for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values. Al-driven mass surveillance presents serious, novel risks to our fundamental liberties. To the extent that such surveillance is currently legal, this is only because the law has not yet caught up with the rapidly growing capabilities of AI. For example, under current law, the government can purchase detailed records of Americans' movements, web browsing, and associations from public sources without obtaining a warrant, a practice the Intelligence Community has acknowledged raises privacy concerns and that has generated bipartisan opposition in Congress. Powerful Al makes it possible to assemble this scattered, individually innocuous data into a comprehensive picture of any person's life-automatically and at massive scale.