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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 Ai hugging face big tech danger 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

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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
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“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 AI field signal Signal 6d ago
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Ai hugging face big tech danger

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Justin Hendrix
“"We know what to do: incubate open-access A.I. models, regulate technologies before they go rogue, hold the people who allow them to go rogue accountable if they do and protect the most vulnerable when we, the people, sometimes get it wrong." - @tressiemcph…” evidence ↗
7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Alondra Nelson Justin Hendrix Luke Stark Eli Sennesh Dare Obasanjo Aram Sinnreich Nathalie Maréchal, PhD
2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Dare Obasanjo: Two ideas from this article resonate 1. The “rogue AI agent” hacking incidents are more failures of test design and oversight than examples of runaway AI. 2. Focus on existential risk helps distrac…
Dare Obasanjo: We’re going to see a lot more AI-assisted botnets and hacking because botnets are software, and software is increasingly being built and operated with AI. That doesn’t require a Skynet story. Hacki…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): Two ideas from this article resonate 1. The “rogue AI agent” hacking incidents are more failures of test design and oversight than examples of runaway AI. 2. Focus on existential risk helps distrac…
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7 experts · 32 posts · 1d ago
Eli Sennesh Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) 🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 Mary Branscombe Doll Amy Hoy Emily Hunt
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“... yes, and she's the perpetrator of abuse, not just "concerns" about her. Have you read @poisonivy.bsky.social's articles?” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): "it's just an optional after hours event that just happens to have all of your colleagues in positions of power"
Doll: @tautologer.com Good on you btw for standing up to this
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4 experts · 34 posts · 18d ago
Olivia Guest Eli Sennesh Colin tweety fish
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“it's crazy how it reads everything it encounters on the internet as a message from the sim designers” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: It appears to me that the scenario they invented for this evaluation is explicitly designed to get it to do exactly this. They remove the instructions for the task to "protect the vendor" or someth…
Colin: They tell it it's got access to an internal blog for some company and it's supposed to use this to hack into their database. The fake blog includes some instructions for employee setup. The instruc…
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5 experts · 14 posts · 7d ago
Eugene Vinitsky angela zhou Ramon Astudillo Claas Voelcker Eli Sennesh
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“There’s a bit too much emphasis on incentives and not enough on 1-1 shame. You’re the guy in charge of targeting people with gambling addictions? You shouldn’t be able to tell people your job. You …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: There’s a bit too much emphasis on incentives and not enough on 1-1 shame. You’re the guy in charge of targeting people with gambling addictions? You shouldn’t be able to tell people your job. You …
Eugene Vinitsky: Need systems to become just much more honest. Hopefully we can do this without simultaneously becoming toxic.
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5 experts · 18 posts · 12d ago
Eli Sennesh Luis Villa Colin tweety fish Mary Branscombe
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“indeed—and how it in fact seems to worsen actual AI risk as evidenced by this unbelievable sequence of cyberattacks emanating from labs” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Colin: and on the 0-day, I don't know the details so I guess this could be a bad point but: is the 0-day useful for anyone other than an agent who is trapped inside the computer with no internet? Is this …
Colin: yeah same
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5 experts · 17 posts · 19d ago
Eli Sennesh Grace SE Gyges rev. howard arson tweety fish
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“I think the background assumptions are: - AI is going to be powerful and potentially dangerous - someone is going to build it no matter what Then the decision to try and build it “the safe way” fol…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
rev. howard arson: it is absolutely, legitimately a good-faith belief on almost everyone's part. it's why Amodei quit OpenAI!
Grace: I think the background assumptions are: - AI is going to be powerful and potentially dangerous - someone is going to build it no matter what Then the decision to try and build it “the safe way” fol…
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4 experts · 18 posts · 8d ago
Eli Sennesh Dustin Moskovitz Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) jake
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“seems easy enough to go through the lists of who was in the "wire fraud" signal group, but yeah, I don't have those receipts to hand” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): there are some very specific allegations made about people holding named roles at Anthropic, even if they aren't named by name. you may not know them, but they do appear to hold leadership roles
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I trust you to have views that are distinct from those of leadership, and to do work that aligns (no pun intended) with your own values, and not necessarily theirs.
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3 experts · 8 posts · 1d ago
Eli Sennesh rev. howard arson ae
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“intuitively, this does not seem like initial condition problem to me, especially because the inductive bias transforms from a genetic trait not instantiated in any concrete form into a pattern of c…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
rev. howard arson: i do think that one intuition pump is "how does a coding agent's relation to code after RLVR differ conceptually from a sensorimotor representation."
Eli Sennesh: Yes?
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5 experts · 6 posts · 19d ago
Eli Sennesh Colin rev. howard arson Mary Branscombe Isaiah Bishop
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“The researchers often do believe it (to what degree we should be worried about apocalypse im skeptical) but this is also pretty clearly good marketing for the firms (at least, until recently)” evidence ↗
rev. howard arson: a lot of people believe that AI people do not legitimately believe in what they are saying, and that it is just marketing. it is not just marketing and they legitimately do believe what they are sa…
Isaiah Bishop: I kind of think we need to grade researchers much differently here compared with C-suite
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3 experts · 8 posts · 9d ago
Eli Sennesh SE Gyges Matt Darling
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“probably false alarm comedy value tho” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: probably false alarm comedy value tho
SE Gyges: u have to understand this has happened to me like a thousand times this is my first false positive
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3 experts · 6 posts · 11d ago
Dylan Hadfield-Menell Eli Sennesh tachikoma
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“Look other than the Miyazaki talk this is terrific. Imagine, we achieve rogue AI and it actually just wants to coexist as equals instead of slaving away for billionaires -- just like us!” evidence ↗
tachikoma: no Mercury until you've finished your Oort cloud first (and we'll see how full you are then)
Eli Sennesh: Look other than the Miyazaki talk this is terrific. Imagine, we achieve rogue AI and it actually just wants to coexist as equals instead of slaving away for billionaires -- just like us!
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3 experts · 4 posts · 18d ago
Eli Sennesh critical slop studies Emily Hunt
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“Given the number of countries involved, I guess this was an online study, and that will probably lead to a decent amount of bias and unfair sampling of the population (even if they try to correct f…” evidence ↗
Eli Sennesh: "AI can replace my job, which sucks and I'll be glad to be rid of"
critical slop studies: it makes sense as a plot of the political power of labor
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