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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

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Re: Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

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Remember guys: Anthropic are the good guys! They care about morals, alignment, and safety! So this invasive surveillance to crush dissent must be good for us! AI is an authoritarian's dream. The future is bright! Dear leader Dario will lead us there!

Future so bright I need to wear sunglasses — at night

You won't need to wear sunglasses because apparently there's a >10% chance there is no future.

Re: Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

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Remember guys: Anthropic are the good guys! They care about morals, alignment, and safety! So this invasive surveillance to crush dissent must be good for us! AI is an authoritarian's dream. The future is bright! Dear leader Dario will lead us there!

Future so bright I need to wear sunglasses — at night

Future is bright because it's going up in flames.

Re: Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

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Imagine defending a corporation because they were "different" because they were here to deliver "safe" and "responsible" AI and are the "good guys". It turns out that Anthropic (and OpenAI) are no different to Palantir or are just Palantir-lite and both have government contracts, their AI tech was used in wars and now they are used for surveillance. Absolutely predictable. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

> Imagine defending a corporation

ftfy

Re: Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

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When next government become worse than the previous one, such technologies become handy for new emperor to keep power and crush dissent. What today is used for good, tomorrow can be used for evil.

Man, why are you copy-pasting comments from the 90s? The current government is maximally evil and interested in using technology to keep power and crush dissent. You don't need to introduce hypotheticals!

> The current government is maximally evil and interested in using technology to keep power and crush dissent. You don't need to introduce hypotheticals!

No no, I assure you, it's quite capable of getting very much worse.

Re: Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

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When next government become worse than the previous one, such technologies become handy for new emperor to keep power and crush dissent. What today is used for good, tomorrow can be used for evil.

Man, why are you copy-pasting comments from the 90s? The current government is maximally evil and interested in using technology to keep power and crush dissent. You don't need to introduce hypotheticals!

> The current government is maximally evil

Wow. That's incredibly optimistic. Imagine, for example, the next 'no kings' protest is met with machine gun fire, rather than ice sporadically killing activists. And then start adding on stuff.

Today, the people at the top need people at the bottom to sustain their lifestyle. Put on your billionare sociopath hat for a moment and ask yourself: If AI ever becomes sufficient to run an economy, why should you care about whether they live or die?

Then, ask yourself why the wealthy are so obsessed with AI.

Re: Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

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When next government become worse than the previous one, such technologies become handy for new emperor to keep power and crush dissent. What today is used for good, tomorrow can be used for evil.

It could be used for good in a possible future to track down all the former Flock/Palantir/Anthropic/OpenAI employees when it's time for the trials.

Re: Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Man, why are you copy-pasting comments from the 90s? The current government is maximally evil and interested in using technology to keep power and crush dissent. You don't need to introduce hypotheticals!

> The current government is maximally evil and interested in using technology to keep power and crush dissent. You don't need to introduce hypotheticals! No no, I assure you, it's quite capable of getting very much worse.

Yeah this administration may have some of the worst intent imaginable, but at least they're bad at hiding it and hitting opposition at every corner... Absolutely more room for evil in this world.
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