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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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Established Models & releases Development 16d ago
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.

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

Concern & critique

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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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Primary source prospect.org ↗
Established Culture, work & education Signal 19d ago
⚡ 97 h early

The real ai jobs apocalypse

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Alex Hanna Brian Merchant Baldur Bjarnason
Primary source bloodinthemachine.com ↗
Established AI field signal Resource 18d ago
⚡ 39 h early
Tech Influence Watch resource

Tech Influence Watch

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Molly White Brian Merchant Ali Alkhatib Gil Durán Frank Pasquale By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Tech's biggest political spenders so far this cycle: • Andreessen Horowitz: $93.5M • Elon Musk: $85.2M • Jeff Yass: $83.8M • Coinbase: $59.3M • Ripple: $55.1M • Crypto​.com: $38.7M • OpenAI: $37.6M • Anthropic: $20M via influence.citationneeded.news”

“My first guest is @molly.wiki; we dig into her new Tech Influence Watch project, discuss the tidal wave of AI and crypto cash hitting the US election cycle, and the implications for democracy.”

3 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Molly White: I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this…
Molly White: Here’s the full story behind the Tech Influence Watch launch, including what I found while building it and why it matters now. www.citationneeded.news/tech-influen...
Molly White: The crypto industry spent $130 million buying the 2024 elections. Over a dozen pro-crypto Congresspeople were installed, and regulatory destruction followed. Now AI is running the same play, with t…
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Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago

Ai may kill all humans industry leaders

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Alex Hanna Brian Merchant

“This conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social couldn't be more timely. With the AI industry talking about *its own products' potential to cause human extinction* we drill into who might still want to build such technology, and why. …”

Primary source bloodinthemachine.com ↗
Established AI business Signal 17d ago
⚡ 2763 h early

AI Slop Startups Like “Delve” Will Never Beat the Fraud Allegations

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Brian Merchant Adam Becker

“Today I learned that the great Wendy Liu aka @dellsystem.bsky.social has a regular column about AI industry billboards in SF in the @bayareacurrent.bsky.social. It's such a great way to examine these companies and AI culture in the valley and the Bay. I'll …”

Primary source bayareacurrent.com ↗