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Reaction converging Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings The real ai jobs apocalypse Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Anthropic predictive surveillance activists

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

14 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Timnit Gebru, Brian Merchant, Jeffrey Yost
“Note. how none of the "whistleblowers" are talking about the actual killing and surveillance machines they're creating 🙄 prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...” evidence ↗
14 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Mar Hicks Meredith Broussard Brian Merchant Hypervisible Luke Stark Eli Sennesh Kat Tenbarge +6
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Note. how none of the "whistleblowers" are talking about the actual killing and surveillance machines they're creating 🙄 prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Hypervisible : I’m old enough to remember people calling them the ethical ai company.
Luke Stark: I’m old enough to remember people calling them the ethical ai company.
Ingrid Burrington: I think a lot about a colleague who said to me "Dario wouldn't do that" re: some shitty thing Anthropic had in fact done, like they were personal friends (they are not)
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Established Culture, work & education Signal 19d ago
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The real ai jobs apocalypse

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Baldur Bjarnason
““The real AI jobs apocalypse - by Brian Merchant” https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-real-ai-jobs-apocalypse > But instead of replacing tens of millions of workers, it’s mostly making them miserable.” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Alex Hanna Brian Merchant Baldur Bjarnason
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