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Reaction converging Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect Concern & critique · 3 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 ↗
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Timnit Gebru Mar Hicks Meredith Broussard Brian Merchant Hypervisible Luke Stark Eli Sennesh Kat Tenbarge +6
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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 Models & releases Signal 15d ago
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Paul Hünermund
“"The route to the Clay problem through a smooth force, options c and d in Fefferman’s statement of the problem, is the route Luis and Diego opened and the one Levent and I had quietly chosen to attack." Sounds more like some mountaineers talking in basecamp…” evidence ↗
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Mar Hicks Paul Hünermund

“"The route to the Clay problem through a smooth force, options c and d in Fefferman’s statement of the problem, is the route Luis and Diego opened and the one Levent and I had quietly chosen to attack." Sounds more like some mountaineers talking in basecamp…”

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5 experts · 85 posts · 7d ago
Mar Hicks Shriram Krishnamurthi Carlos Scheidegger Vikram Saraph Amy Hoy
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“I'm not sure what a "skill gem" is, but I rarely ever use a model without having it have some way to check its answers. When given a way to check, they're very good. Without it, real risk of halluc…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
Shriram Krishnamurthi: I'm amazed by *just how bad* Gemini can be. A Google product, operating inside a Google doc, can't create a Google doc element…and lies that it has. Also struggles to convert a very basic LaTeX fil…
Shriram Krishnamurthi: Amusingly, Gmail itself can create Google calendar entries based on the content of many messages!
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5 experts · 10 posts · 11d ago
Mar Hicks Olivia Guest Damien Williams Marielza Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)
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“Again, I am happy to stand with y’all, but I think we might take a moment to reflect on why the march of AI became so much more of an existential threat when it came for the practical fields, the s…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE): Gonna be extremely petty for a moment: I am glad to stand in solidarity with my colleagues in mathematics against the tyranny of AI slop, but I have to ask: where the fuck were most of y’all when t…
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE): Again, I am happy to stand with y’all, but I think we might take a moment to reflect on why the march of AI became so much more of an existential threat when it came for the practical fields, the s…
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3 experts · 10 posts · 4d ago
Mar Hicks VE, cybersocial occult investigator René Walter
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“Misleading headline though, he specifically warns about "AI systems capable of setting their own objectives, earning money and owning assets" which would "essentially seeding a new silicon species".” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: As I was saying about Microsoft having their own in-house AI cultists. The specifically weird and salacious people at the frontier labs are far from the only new religious movement driving AI leade…
René Walter: Misleading headline though, he specifically warns about "AI systems capable of setting their own objectives, earning money and owning assets" which would "essentially seeding a new silicon species".
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