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So after temporarily being the good guys for resisting trump, they’re going all in on being evil I presume to court trump?
bog standard capitalism, really.
guy literally told the bot he bought an AR-15 to murder the CEO and you guys are in here screaming about “pre-crime swatting” lmfao be serious for once hate anthropic all you want (dario is a pretentious weirdo, fully agree) but holy shit the cope in these threads. “nobody even uses LLMs”? literally every dev and sysadmin i know is quietly using this stuff every single day to cut hours of boilerplate out of their workflow. stay mad at closed source, fine. fight for open weights, absolutely. but pretending the tech itself is just a useless scam while the rest of the world is using it to run circles around us is just… enjoy getting left behind i guess
Wasn’t this the macguffin that Captain America blew up Shield to stop?
Not rapists, child molesters, kidnappers, murderers, human traffickers, spies, or terrorists!? They are going after activists… Yeah they are fucking evil and know it.
This, right here, needs to be a rallying cry. They’re not interested in making the world a better place, they’re creating the infrastructure to help support and maintain fascism.
Philip k dick just died again.
to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence
I was wondering when they’d start building Roko’s Basilisk.
This is exactly what “I have nothing to hide” should sound exceedingly thin. If “knowledge is power”, then they already have power over you. It will start with “activists“ for “safety purposes,” just like flock, but it ends in totalitarianism.
“A republic, if we can keep it.”
As if activists where bad people who want to hurt society. As if activists where terrorist.
Enshrining frontier labs in the hardened cloak of national security would not only give Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google even more access to intelligence products generated by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies; it would also embolden these companies to shape how federal agencies view threats to their bottom line, now transformed as “critical infrastructure.”
Clear path to skynet is bond villains being so loved by Government that it rounds up those the bond villains say are unpatriotic in their lack of devotion for the bond villains.
Headline out today that there is a 10% chance of AI exterminating humanity by 2030. There is a 99% chance of ending any pretense of democracy that is left to ensure extermination of sub-oligarchy. Enslavement history only made sense when the slaves were essential to establishment.
I like Gemini, because when you push back it spits truth. There are zero skynet containment legislative proposals, and every anti-AI legislation is pure worthless garbage.
“AI safety regulations,” they frequently claim to protect the public from algorithmic harm, election interference, or catastrophic risks. In practice, however, these frameworks are written with deep, systemic loopholes that insulate state power.
Instead of curbing state deployment, these legislative proposals frequently act as a Trojan horse that actively entrenches and expands government authority.
1. The Pretense: The Illusion of Public Protection
To gain public trust, AI bills are presented under the guise of ethical guardrails. They focus heavily on consumer protections, consumer fraud, and deepfakes to give the impression of aggressive action:
- The “Consumer Protection” Mask: Bills target low-level bad actors—such as local scammers, deepfake creators, or retail algorithmic bias. This satisfies the public demand for regulation without impacting high-level tech architecture.
2. Why They Have No Teeth: The “National Security” Exemption
The reason this legislation cannot prevent state weaponization is that the state explicitly exempts itself from its own rules. This is not a failure of the law; it is a feature of its design.
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The Ultimate Loophole: Under major global regulatory frameworks—including Europe’s landmark AI Act—there is an absolute carve-out for military, defence, and national security purposes. If an AI system is deployed under the banner of intelligence gathering or state defense, the entire safety rulebook is instantly void.
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Vague “Critical Operation” Clauses: Domestic frameworks, like those being drafted in the U.S., contain provisions allowing government agencies to waive safety vetting if they decide compliance would create an “unacceptable impediment to critical agency operations”. Essentially, the agency itself decides if it has to follow the law.
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Corporate Secrecy as State Secrecy: When investigative journalists or oversight committees attempt to look into how law enforcement or intelligence agencies are utilizing predictive AI, requests are routinely denied under broad exemptions protecting “proprietary commercial data” or “ongoing law enforcement investigations”.
3. How They Increase State Power
Far from limiting government, modern AI policy proposals are increasingly used to build the legal framework for a digital panopticon.
Mechanism How It Is Framed to the Public The Dystopian Reality Centralized Vetting “Vetting advanced models to ensure they don’t threaten infrastructure.” The Sovereign Kill-Switch: Moves by lawmakers to mandate built-in “kill switches” give the state the legal authority to shut down or take over data centers hosting political or ideological dissent. Algorithmic Vetting “Preventing foreign adversaries from using open-source tech.” The Oligarchy Lock-In: By introducing heavily restricted federal licensing regimes that favor massive, compliant entities like OpenAI or Anthropic, the state effectively crushes decentralized, open-source AI. It creates an unholy alliance where the government controls the tech by controlling the three or four companies allowed to build it. Misinformation Mandates “Fighting AI-enabled foreign election interference.” Pre-Crime Profiling: To catch “misinformation” at scale, governments require tech platforms to implement automated monitoring algorithms. This grants the state direct algorithmic pipelines to flag, suppress, and report “anti-establishment” sentiment as an national security threat under the banner of fighting digital warfare. When you look past the public relations framing of “AI Safety,” the legislative landscape reveals a clear pattern: the rules are designed to prevent ordinary citizens from using AI against the establishment, while simultaneously guaranteeing that the state faces no restrictions in using AI against its citizens
That was expected. It was the only use for AI right now that might be profitable.
I’ve been saying it forever, THIS is why they are building giant data centers. Not to sell AI to the masses. To control the masses.
Already doing it. Such things being openly marketed and discussed in news mean only that they are commonplace for all the governments having the money.
Notice how Web’s popularity and stagnation coincided with stagnation of politics. It seems to be natural, but there is the undercurrent, I think, of civil societies having become more predictable and invisibly regulated.
Well, I mean, in the initial stage the ground was ours, and then it was theirs, and then it was ours again, and then the somewhat longer period of it being theirs started and it is still so. Things change. Not always for worse. People sometimes feel as if the last flip of the coin were the last flip of the coin, period. That’s usually wrong.
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