On Wednesday, April 01, 2026, at 1:07 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > The dispute between Anthropic and the US military was a couple weeks ago > about using Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. It sounds > like a noble goal, but a losing one. Surveillance is the most practical way > to collect human knowledge. Remember that the goal of AI is not intelligence. > It is to model human behavior. You can't do that without surveillance. But > it's voluntary. Everything you do on your phone or any electronics is > recorded, but who's going to give it up?
A business goal of AI is to monetize human behavior. Governments, to control it. There is no voluntary anymore, that’s years ago. At any given time you’re being surveilled on probably 15 different networks. Governments pay companies like Flock for example, then Flock sells the data to other surveillance companies. We pay government taxes but the majority's decisions are faintly heard since money supply control is much more powerful. Though I've seen removals of Flock cameras in cities by citizens expressing their will and Gen-Z is attempting rejection, calling it digital-detox by buying dumb flip-phones... as well Faraday material sales are drastically increasing. We can still do AI/AGI without mass redundant surveillance it's just that the system profits maximally from it by exploiting the human privacy goldmine. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T4307cd14f489571d-Ma4ab4b02b4f1a294ca1e2ac4 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
