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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 ↗
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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Reaction converging

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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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Developing Safety & security Analysis 1d ago
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AI safety factions debate NPR guide

The AI safety debate is confusing. Here's our guide to the different factions

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Timnit Gebru
“All of this media on "takes on rogue AI" or whatever, is all the billionaires (newly minted or old), people doing so-called "AI safety" getting hundreds of millions claiming to save us from extinction, and then me playing in my kiddy pool with my pretend do…” evidence ↗
3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Olivia Guest Hypervisible

“All of this media on "takes on rogue AI" or whatever, is all the billionaires (newly minted or old), people doing so-called "AI safety" getting hundreds of millions claiming to save us from extinction, and then me playing in my kiddy pool with my pretend do…”

2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Timnit Gebru: All of this media on "takes on rogue AI" or whatever, is all the billionaires (newly minted or old), people doing so-called "AI safety" getting hundreds of millions claiming to save us from extinct…
Timnit Gebru: Or have a "world models" startup that gets $2B and then gets acquired by AMD for $8B without producing anything as my advisor apparently did 🤔
wells: and the way you're able to make so much more of an actual impact than any of them with their billions in funding !!
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Established AI field signal Signal 14d ago
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Marc andreessen trump biden ai opinion

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · austin
“> First, Andreessen warned us to watch out for “the sex cult that wants to run America’s AI policy.” broken clocks www.politico.com/news/magazin...” evidence ↗
4 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Anil Dash Ingrid Burrington austin

“> First, Andreessen warned us to watch out for “the sex cult that wants to run America’s AI policy.” broken clocks www.politico.com/news/magazin...”

“The Biden White House guys who had the meeting on AI with Andreessen have *just now* figured out that they should point out that Andreessen has been intentionally lying about it ever since in order to drum up support for the fascists. WHY THE FUCK DID YOU W…”

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Anil Dash: The Biden White House guys who had the meeting on AI with Andreessen have *just now* figured out that they should point out that Andreessen has been intentionally lying about it ever since in order…
Anil Dash: Because: bsky.app/profile/kott...
Ingrid Burrington: "for two years we held our tongues" for what, fellas??
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Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago
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King Charles warns of 'existential danger' of AI falling into wrong hands

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Shannon Vallor
“Truly astonishing that all any world leader can think to do is keep inviting the same guys into a room to give their considered advice on how we can protect ourselves from all the harmful, unsafe things deliberately done by the guys in the room” evidence ↗
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Shannon Vallor Hypervisible

“Truly astonishing that all any world leader can think to do is keep inviting the same guys into a room to give their considered advice on how we can protect ourselves from all the harmful, unsafe things deliberately done by the guys in the room”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Shannon Vallor: Truly astonishing that all any world leader can think to do is keep inviting the same guys into a room to give their considered advice on how we can protect ourselves from all the harmful, unsafe t…
Kate Devlin: 💯!
Shannon Vallor: I shall now use my golden pen to draft a formal invitation to all the pickpockets in my town to come to a summit to tell me how to stop the pickpockets in town from picking my pocket, after which I…
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8 experts · 30 posts · 9d ago
Emily M. Bender Hypervisible Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Ali Alkhatib tante VE, cybersocial occult investigator Amy Hoy
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“can't think of any authors continuing to talk about stochastic parrots as much as its critics seem to do. they've all founded research institutes, written books, etc if you want people to pick up a…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 3 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ali Alkhatib: can't think of any authors continuing to talk about stochastic parrots as much as its critics seem to do. they've all founded research institutes, written books, etc if you want people to pick up a…
Ali Alkhatib: its usefulness as a framework, like all conceptual frameworks, is mediated to some extent (maybe entirely determined!) by its usefulness to people. if it continues to be useful, then its not a bad …
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5 experts · 6 posts · 1d ago
Hypervisible Christopher Mims Tim Carmody Neil Turkewitz Amy Hoy
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“Indeed! And that they train AI on data captured without consent or compensation in a process known as (text & data) mining! They don’t even work to try to hide the exploitative colonialist narrative.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Hypervisible : Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but t…
Tim Carmody: Also the AI agents on the market (even/especially Muse, the new popular agent for nontechnical people) are too powerful, suck up too much data, and have too lax permissions for regular folks who do…
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4 experts · 15 posts · 6d ago
Olivia Guest Hypervisible Luke Stark VE, cybersocial occult investigator
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“One of my long-standing complaints with the pro-AI world is how their complaint that anti-AI people and the left "need better critics" is clearly a reflection of themselves not having read the actu…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: One of my long-standing complaints with the pro-AI world is how their complaint that anti-AI people and the left "need better critics" is clearly a reflection of themselves not having read the actu…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: It's way easier to shadowbox with a guy you made up in your head than to do the reading and engage with it honestly, but you do you.
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4 experts · 15 posts · 12d ago
Hypervisible e.w. niedermeyer tweety fish Pavel
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“instead having a fairly strong philosophical commitment to the idea that things like harnesses and workflows are basically half-measures that should not be necessary in the near future where AGI ju…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
tweety fish: instead having a fairly strong philosophical commitment to the idea that things like harnesses and workflows are basically half-measures that should not be necessary in the near future where AGI ju…
tweety fish: this from @ftrain.com is terrific, unsurprisingly, and I think this sentence actually understates the issue; it's not just that the big labs are in a hurry, it's that they don't see producing usefu…
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3 experts · 12 posts · 8d ago
Emily M. Bender Hypervisible Anthony Moser
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“are you sure there isn't a facial unlock system on luxury cars already? a lot of times surveillance is sold as a luxury @hypervisible.blacksky.app is in fact working on a book about this called "Lu…” evidence ↗
Anthony Moser: this is what i mean when i say ai is a rhetorical technology. functionally this is a tool for *justifying deportation*, not a tool for assessing age. when someone is pitching an ai product, don't a…
Anthony Moser: So let's apply that here. what does this justify?
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3 experts · 9 posts · 8d ago
Hypervisible Hagen Blix VE, cybersocial occult investigator
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“The total cybernetic control of society through surveillance, modeling, and prediction is the holy grail of AI and the ideological capstone of the social and political project it affords.” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The total cybernetic control of society through surveillance, modeling, and prediction is the holy grail of AI and the ideological capstone of the social and political project it affords.
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: To the degree Roko’s basilisk does stand in as a proxy for a joint ideological commitment in tech, I think some significant number of tech people implicitly believe in a devil’s bargain that if the…
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2 experts · 4 posts · 20d ago
Hypervisible Hagen Blix
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“Increasingly starting to think that a certain hostility to literacy, LLMs and the mass surveillance structures all have to be thought together” evidence ↗
Hagen Blix: Increasingly starting to think that a certain hostility to literacy, LLMs and the mass surveillance structures all have to be thought together
Hypervisible : Increasingly starting to think that a certain hostility to literacy, LLMs and the mass surveillance structures all have to be thought together
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