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Anthropic’s warning raises urgent questions about the use of AI for mass surveillance by the state

This is not a sci-fi fantasy. The Chinese state is already using AI to systematize data, a project fed by 700 million cameras, biometrics, facial recognition, voice identification, ID cards, WeChat, Alipay, e-commerce, medical records, hotel stays and so on. But that is China, a regime like no other, governing a citizenry that has never had individual freedom of the sort that India, the US and most of Europe are justifiably proud of.

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