The FBI Is Building an AI to Find "Radicals": You're next!
The State Department recently published a report naming progressive politicians, journalists, and Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls as agents of foreign subversion. At the exact same time, the FBI is spending over a quarter of a billion dollars on defense contracts to build a predictive AI surveillance machine that analyzes your associations and data without a warrant. The FBI previously used secret watchlists to target the civil rights movement, send a suicide letter to Martin Luther King, and assist local police in shooting Fred Hampton. Now, the government is automating that…
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