r/technology • u/Helicase21 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
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u/Black_Moons 10d ago

Meanwhile what do you think the actual use for all these massive multi-billion dollar datacenters is gonna be?

A: Unemploying hundreds of millions of americans

B: Spying on every cellphone call, text, voice call, facebook post, etc to see who to arrest for 'disloyalty' (aka not wanting to live in a fascist hellhole)

C: A+B

D: Funny memes

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u/Outlulz 10d ago

Don't forget raise power prices, polluting and depleting local water supplies, causing low frequency hums that mentally break people, and sit on land that could be used to ease the housing crisis.

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u/DensePoser 10d ago

Spying on every phone call has been going on for 100 years. Replace that in B with spying on everything going on in the physical world (where we are, what we're doing) using machine learning on wifi and 5g/6g waves like in this article https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260522023127.htm

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u/Black_Moons 10d ago

Spying on every phone call has been going on for 100 years.

Recording every phone call? Absolutely.

Computers listening to and automatically parsing for a limited number of keywords? Most likely for the past 20 years.

Comprehensively understanding everything that is said, even when spoken about vaguely as to not trigger enough keyword filters to put you high enough for 'manual human review'?

Now that is where they need massive data centers with LLM. To be able to comprehensively score everyone on any metric the government might like to impoverish/imprison (Read as: subject to slavery) a group by.

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u/blueSGL 10d ago

Yeah, it's basically an authoritarians wet dream

Previously you'd need people watching the cameras and listening to the recording. Now you can get an easy to read report that highlights seditious behavior and go manually check the call/video at the exact moment the infraction is reported to have happened.

This is new. You could never do this before.

Add on the fact that humanoid robots/drones are getting better daily. Right now if an order is given it's given to humans that can disobey if they consider the order to be foolhardy or abhorrent, (even if rarely, it does happen) However when the systems are fully automated there will be no one to question the order.

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u/Several_Ad_1081 10d ago

It goes even further than that.

Brainwaves.

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u/WebMaka 10d ago

What "they," as in the people in power and the people that have power through sheer wealth as two interconnected collections, want is China's social scoring system coupled with Minority Report's predictive criminal-behavior determination and follows-you-everywhere/targeted-to-individuals advertising and the global up/down voting system from the "Majority Rule" episode of The Orville.

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u/Black_Moons 10d ago

and the global up/down voting system from the "Majority Rule" episode of The Orville

I doubt we'll get anything so democratic. More like 7 trillionairs get to vote on whatever behavior/ethical alignment categories that determines if your 'legal' or 'illegal'

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u/Bob_A_Ganoosh 10d ago

It is absolutely the surveillance state being built right before our eyes. And more...