What's framed as security often blurs into personal score-settling, with allegations of profiling, intimidation, and overreach extending beyond the arena itself.
China is a deeply repressive nation, with universal surveillance, fine-grained media and speech control, and ubiquitous censorship. That's the kind of society where only anodyne, cautious artistry can flourish, except in tiny subcultural pockets too small for the government to worry about.
Once the technical capacity for mass surveillance and political suppression exists, the only thing standing between us and an authoritarian surveillance state is the political expectation that this is not something we do here.
For OpenAI, initial doubts about the strength of the company's safeguards against the use of its technologies for domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons have metastasized into a full-blown PR crisis.
Who wants mass surveillance? Only the Epstein class. The robot's point was that billionaires often build powerful surveillance technologies while simultaneously going to great lengths to maintain their own privacy.
Here, the Trump administration is threatening to invoke a wartime production law to force an AI company to let its software be used for autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance.
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