we find ourselves in the same predicament every time when 'new' things arrive and we have no choice about the requirements to use them. a good thing is that our communications are improved and many hidden social and historical items are revealed; 

 

As Americans turn against artificial intelligence, AI companies are building programs to surveil and identify troublemakers in advance.

An investigative report published this week by The American Prospect revealed that, “in addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a ‘pre-crime’ approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs.”

An Anthropic security official said during a podcast that the goal is to transform operations “from reactive information to gathering proactive and predictive and preventative threat engagement and management.”

The Prospect garnered its findings by reading through job postings, talking to senior security officials at Anthropic, and listening to interviews with company officials.  

A Response to Growing Threats?

Anthropic frames its emerging surveillance and predictive programs as necessary responses to growing threats, and the Prospect report includes several examples of threats or concerning incidents involving Anthropic representatives. For example, last month, local media reported that Anthropic called the police on a man who told Claude that he bought an AR-15 and “had CEO Dario Amodei ‘in his sights.'”

Interestingly, while Anthropic was quick to call the cops, the company also refused to show police the messages. “In short, Anthropic reported a user for in-platform speech, and then refused to provide police with evidence of actual wrongdoing,” the Prospect pointed out.......more...........