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>>hhs+(OP)
They film us on the street. They film us at traffic signals, from law enforcement vehicles, and drones, parks and even through our doorbell cameras. I don't mean this glibly, or in its entirety, but the big screen watching your every move in 1984 seems not too far off..

>>ajay-b+sg
And now with the advent of highly capable LLMs, we don't even need humans watching and listening. The data streams can be captured, analyzed, summarized, for any behavior, mention, suspicion, or hallucination of undesirable activity. In a population inured to masked agents snatching people off the street domestically and semi*-autonomous drone strikes abroad*, our future doesn't look rosy.

* for now

>>boothb+nj
This is the key realization which is missing from talks about AI dangers.

Total surveillance used to be impossible because the government needed people to spy on other people. They needed to find somebody willing and pay them.

Now it can be automated.

The war won't be humans vs an AI controlling robots. It'll be humans vs the government and rich people controlling AI controlling robots.