Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
The American Prospect
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
I don’t think that comparison conveys just how bad this is. I’m not talking about their egos (which of course are massive) here.
This is about fundamentally changing the way society is organized back to something that resembles feudalism.
This is not paranoid conspiracy theory stuff, this is the explicit goal of many, by their own admissions (e.g. Curtis Yarvin, Peter Theil, etc)Then there are many more who are “proteges” of these people who maybe hide the “if you elect me I will do everything I can to kill your democracy” slightly better (e.g. JD Vance, Russ Vought, etc).
The latter are able to get elected and/or appointed to powerful positions because the electorate doesn’t know what “feudalism” or “serfdom” actually mean anyway.
Next thing you know, we’re all fucking serfs.